Puffing

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Puff \Puff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Puffed} (p[u^]ft); p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Puffing}.] [Akin to G. puffen to pop, buffet, puff,
     D. poffen to pop, puffen to blow, Sw. puffa to push, to cuff,
     Dan. puffe to pop, thump. See {Puff}, n.]
     1. To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
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     2. To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
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              It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.
                                                    --South.
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     3. To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent
        exertion.
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              The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from
              the chase.                            --L' Estrange.
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     4. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated. --Boyle.
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     5. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner;
        hence, to assume importance.
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              Then came brave Glory puffing by.     --Herbert.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Puffing \Puff"ing\,
     a. & n. from {Puff}, v. i. & t.
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     {Puffing adder}. (Zool.) Same as {Puff adder}
     (b), under {Puff}.
  
     {Puffing pig} (Zool.), the common porpoise.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  puffing
       adj : breathing heavily [syn: {huffing}, {puffy}]
       n 1: blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the
            room with their ceaseless puffing"
       2: an act of forcible exhalation [syn: {huffing}, {snorting}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "puffing":
     asthmatic, blurb, breathing, breathless, errhine, expiratory,
     heaving, huffing, inspiratory, nasal, out of breath, panting, plug,
     pneumonic, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiratory, rhinal,
     short-breathed, short-winded, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy,
     snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutatory,
     stertorous, wheezing, wheezy, winded, write-up