puffy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpʌfi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌfi
Adjective
[edit]puffy (comparative puffier, superlative puffiest)
- Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
- Coming or exhaling in puffs.
- puffy breath
- A puffy fat man in a tracksuit came jogging around the corner.
- Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 20:
- There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]inflated
exaggeratedly eloquent speaking or writing
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