PUFFING meaning: Exaggerated praise to promote sales

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word puffing:

General (17 matching dictionaries)

puffing: Merriam-Webster
puffing: Collins English Dictionary
puffing: Vocabulary.com
Puffing, puffing: Wordnik
puffing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
puffing: Wiktionary
puffing: Dictionary.com
puffing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Puffing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Puffing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
puffing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
puffing: Rhymezone
Puffing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
puffing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
puffing: FreeDictionary.org
puffing: Mnemonic Dictionary
Puffing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)

puffing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
puffing: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
puffing: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Puffing: Legal dictionary
puffing: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

puffing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

puffing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
puffing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

puffing: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

Puffing: Urban Dictionary
Puffing: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (puffing)

▸ verb:  (US) Leaving a car engine running unattended, especially in cold weather to warm it up.
▸ noun:  The act of one who puffs.
▸ noun:  A puffy ornament.
▸ noun:  (law) An opinion or judgment, often made by the seller of property to a potential buyer, that is not made as a representation of fact.

Similar:

huffing, breathing, chuff, sputter out, huff and puff, bepuff, pluff, whuff, pink, purr, more...

Opposite:

deflating, shrinking, compressing, flattening

Types:

wheezing, panting, gasping, breathing heavily, more...

Phrases:

puffing out, puffing up, puffing pig, puffing adder, puffing and blow, more...

Adjectives:

much, mere, little, great, rapid, heavy, slight, loud, locomotive, vigorous, constant

Colors:

cloud white, misty blue, hazy lavender, soot black, dusty rose, more...