puffs

Verb

puff (third-person singular simple present puffs, present participle puffing, simple past and past participle puffed)

1. (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
   • Still on the down line, the engine puffed away to the South, and in a few moments had disappeared in the darkness!1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53
2. (intransitive) To pant.
   • By and by comes the ass back again, Puffing and Blowing, from the Chase.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
3. (archaic, transitive) To advertise.
4. To blow as an expression of scorn.
   • It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
5. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
   • 'tis easy for a man to have a great opinion of his own knowledge , and be puff'd up by it1690, Robert Boyle, The Christian Virtuoso
6. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
   • Then came brave Glory puffing by.1633, George Herbert, The Quip

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