meaning of puff

1. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
2. Anything light and filled with air.
3. A puffball.
4. a kind of light pastry.
5. A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
6. An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
7. To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
8. To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
9. To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
10. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
11. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
12. To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
13. To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
14. To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
15. To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.
16. To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
17. Puffed up; vain.
18. puff To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually *named* "PUFF", but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder. Opposite: huff. [Jargon File]
19. forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single ">puff"

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