Puffy

3 definitions found

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

  Puffy \Puff"y\, a.
     1. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft
        substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. " A very
        stout, puffy man." --Thackeray.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  puffy
       adj 1: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a
              bouffant skirt" [syn: {bouffant}]
       2: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
          children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly
          distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids";
          "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
          [syn: {bloated}, {distended}, {puffed}, {swollen}, {tumescent},
           {tumid}, {turgid}]
       3: breathing heavily [syn: {huffing}, {puffing}]
       [also: {puffiest}, {puffier}]

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

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "puffy":
     adipose, aeolian, airish, airy, arrogant, beefy, big-bellied,
     blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blowzy, blustering, blusterous,
     blustery, boreal, bosomy, brawny, breezy, brisk, burly, buxom,
     chubby, chunky, corpulent, dilated, distended, drafty, dropsical,
     dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, favonian, flatulent,
     flawy, fleshy, fresh, full, gassy, gross, gusty, heavyset, hefty,
     hippy, important, imposing, incrassate, inflated, lusty,
     magisterial, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plethoric, plump,
     podgy, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffed up, pursy,
     roly-poly, rotund, self-important, squally, square, squat, squatty,
     stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffy, swelled, swollen,
     thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose,
     well-fed, windy