puffy

English

Etymology

From puff +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʌfi/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ʌfi

Adjective

puffy (comparative puffier, superlative puffiest)

1. Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
2. Coming or exhaling in puffs.

   puffy breath

   A puffy fat man in a tracksuit came jogging around the corner.

3. Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 20:

     There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time.

Derived terms

• foofy
• huffy-puffy
• poofy
• puffily
• puffiness
• puffy sticks

 

Translations

inflated

• French: bouffi (fr), enflé (fr), rebondi (fr)
• Hungarian: táskás (hu)
• Spanish: inflado (es)
• Vietnamese: sưng vù (vi)

exaggeratedly eloquent speaking or writing

• Bulgarian: надут (bg) (nadut), високопарен (bg) (visokoparen)
• French: boursouflé (fr)
• Macedonian: високо́парен (visokóparen)
• Russian: напыщенный (ru) (napyščennyj)
• Spanish: expresivo (es)