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apuff

/əˈpʌf/

apuff adjective: out of breath; puffing.

Adjective

apuff (comparative more apuff, superlative most apuff)

  1. Out of breath; puffing.
    • “No,” said Smoke. “Just a one-sided argument. What's the news, Alex? You're all apuff.”2009, L. Ron Hubbard, Man-Killers of the Air
    • Aunt Mary Braley stood at the bedside, all apuff from the long climb up the stairs.2014, Jessie Haas, Westminster West
  2. worked up; visibly agitated.
    • Rookie policemen, apuff with zeal and a conviction anybody they arrested should get the book as an incorrigible miscreant, sometimes yiped loud and long about the judge's leniency.1966, United States. Congress, Congressional Record
    • Inside the room, specially vacated of all who normally slept there, Jemubhai, his face apuff with anger, grabbed at his wife.2008, Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

Adverb

apuff (comparative more apuff, superlative most apuff)

  1. While apuff.
    • She asked Charles to sign our names and address in the curly-backed notebook as Eth limped up the stairs apuff with all the luggage.1937, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 101, page 52

apuff meaning in Tamil

apuff in Tamil

கரிச்சக்காய்

Examples of apuff in a sentence

  • Next to arrive was Aunt Helena, all apuff from limping over from the library.2019, Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, →ISBN, page 345:
  • “Sorry, Jon, I didn't mean to interrupt your private party, but we've been invited to stay at the palace, and the majordomo is all apuff waiting to show us our rooms.2012, Alfred Tella, Zuralia Dreaming:
  • Argue about revolutionary ideas, advocate eloquently for some change in policy, work through the paralyzed political system, and probably get their periwigs all apuff with frustration.2017, Joe Quirk, Seasteading:

Forms of apuff

Adjective
comparativemore apuff
superlativemost apuff
Adverb
comparativemore apuff
superlativemost apuff

Origin of apuff

From a- + puff.

Questions about apuff

What does apuff mean?
Apuff means out of breath; puffing.
What is apuff in Tamil?
Apuff in Tamil is கரிச்சக்காய். See Apuff meaning in Tamil.
How do you use apuff in a sentence?
Next to arrive was Aunt Helena, all apuff from limping over from the library.
What part of speech is apuff?
Apuff can be an adjective or an adverb.
How do you pronounce apuff?
Apuff is pronounced /əˈpʌf/.

Words near apuff in the dictionary

  1. APUD cells
  2. apudoma
  3. apudomas
  4. apudomata
  5. APUDs
  6. apuff
  7. Apuglian
  8. Apuldram
  9. Apuleian
  10. Apuleius
  11. Apulia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apuff (page history and authors); apuff (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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