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puffy

/ˈpʌfi/

puffy adjective: swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.

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.
    • 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.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 20
  4. Having inflated cheeks.

puffy meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Nepali

puffy in Urdu

پفی

puffy in Bengali

ফোলা, আকৃতিতে স্ফীত, যেন বাতাসে পূর্ণ, বালিশের মতো, দমকায় নির্গত হওয়া, ফোলা গাল বিশিষ্ট

puffy in Malayalam

puffed up, swollen, distended
വീർത്ത, ചീർത്ത, സ്ഫാത, സ്ഫീത, വീങ്ങിയ, കാറ്റുനിറഞ്ഞ

puffy in Nepali

पफी
More languagesFewer languages
puffy in Vietnamese
sưng vù

Examples of puffy in a sentence

  • The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.
  • Puri is a soft, puffy bread, and papadam is round, crispy, and chiplike.
  • In her puffy parka Tara looked like an animated snowchild, herself: bubble-shaped, stumpy.

All 22 example sentences with puffy

Forms of puffy

comparativepuffier
superlativepuffiest

Origin of puffy

From puff + -y.

Words formed from puffy

Words that rhyme with puffy

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about puffy

What does puffy mean?
Puffy means swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
What is puffy in Urdu?
Puffy in Urdu is پفی. See Puffy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is puffy?
Puffy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce puffy?
Puffy is pronounced /ˈpʌfi/.

Words near puffy in the dictionary

  1. puffs
  2. puffs one's chest
  3. puffs out
  4. puffs the magic dragon
  5. puffs up
  6. puffy
  7. puffy sticks
  8. PUFs
  9. puft
  10. puftaloon
  11. puftaloons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: puffy (page history and authors); puffy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puffy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); puffy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); puffy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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