Definition of puff

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Puff (v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up..

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Gasteromycetes :: Gasteromycetes (n. pl.) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs..
Puff :: Puff (n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal..
Astrut :: Astrut (a. & adv.) Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner..
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
Fuffy :: Fuffy (a.) Light; puffy.
Puffy :: Puffy (a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style..
Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
Puffer :: Puffer (n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
Pluff :: Pluff (n.) A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder..
Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..
Puffing :: Puffing () a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t..
Vent :: Vent (v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
Sea Pad :: Sea pad () The puffin.
Bloated :: Bloated (p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous..
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..
Vol-au-vent :: Vol-au-vent (n.) A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish..
Puff :: Puff (n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..
Flatus :: Flatus (n.) A breath; a puff of wind.
Pluff :: Pluff (n.) A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it..
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