Definition of puff

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Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..

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Auk :: Auk (n.) A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre..
Whiff :: Whiff (n.) A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke..
Strout :: Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.
Vain :: Vain (superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated..
Flatulent :: Flatulent (a.) Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity..
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up..
Marrot :: Marrot (n.) The puffin.
Pubble :: Pubble (a.) Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat..
Puff :: Puff (a.) Puffed up; vain.
Fuff :: Fuff (v. t. & i.) To puff.
Puffin :: Puffin (n.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot..
Puff :: Puff (n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal..
Bollen :: Bollen (a.) Swollen; puffed out.
Effume :: Effume (v. t.) To breathe or puff out.
Bellied :: Bellied (a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied..
Puckball :: Puckball (n.) A puffball.
Hagdon :: Hagdon (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater..
Whiff :: Whiff (v. t.) To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
Puff :: Puff (n.) a kind of light pastry.
Hognosesnake :: Hognosesnake () A harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, esp. H. platyrhynos; -- called also puffing adder, blowing adder, and sand viper..
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