n
A short, sharp puff of air designed to startle a small animal in a biological experiment.
n
(US, obsolete) A substance of uncertain composition once used to adulterate cheese to prevent it from swelling.
adj
Out of breath; puffing.
adj
Pertaining to, or characterised by, belching.
v
To fluff, puff or swell up.
v
(of hair) To puff out in a voluminous way.
v
Obsolete form of bombast. [To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.]
v
Of a powder, propellant, or explosive charge: to become extinguished and reignited intermittently.
n
(figuratively, informal) A weak or ineffectual person.
v
(transitive) To remove the puffiness from.
v
To make a vocal rhythm in which some sounds are made by inhaling.
adj
(obsolete) Empty; vain.
v
To fluff; to cause to puff up.
v
(dialect, transitive, intransitive) To puff.
n
(Ireland, slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
adj
(Britain, slang, derogatory, said of a person) Inclined to talk in a loud and offensive manner.
n
Alternative form of hogo (“strong unpleasant smell”) [A strong, unpleasant smell.]
n
(obsolete) One swelled with a false sense of importance or value; a boaster.
v
To breathe heavily, especially after rigorous exercise
n
belching with the taste of undigested meat
v
(informal) To smell bad; to stink.
n
Alternative form of noseshot [range of smell, a distance in which something is detectable by smell]
v
(transitive) To puff harder or better than; to outblow.
n
(US, military, historical) Any of a series of devices used to detect concealed enemy soldiers by traces of effluents such as sweat and urine.
n
(colloquial) A person who has emphysema.
v
To dust or to puff with smoke.
n
A short skirt gathered into a rounded puffy shape; a puffball.
n
(uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
v
(transitive) To blow briefly and lightly.
n
A journalistic form of puffery; an article or story of exaggerating praise that often ignores or downplays opposing viewpoints or evidence to the contrary.
n
(aviation) A pipe on a VTOL aircraft that expels compressed air in order to stabilize the craft.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to appear larger or conserve body heat.
n
(UK) A kind of shiny padded jacket.
adj
Capable of being puffed.
n
(dated) A person who gives exaggerated praise to a product, literary work, etc.
n
(British dialect) A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
n
An assistive technology allowing disabled people to send signals to a device by means of air pressure, by either "sipping" (inhaling) or "puffing" (exhaling) through a straw or similar component.
v
(slang, chiefly UK) To inhale drugs (usually cocaine) through the nose, usually in powder form.
v
(transitive, slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
v
To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
n
(obsolete) A weak, wishy-washy drink.
v
(dated, idiomatic) To take offence.
v
(transitive) To bring out of a puffed-up or puffy state.
v
To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
v
To make a blowing or puffing noise.
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