Puffy \Puff"y\, a.
1. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft
substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. " A very
stout, puffy man." --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
puffy
adj 1: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a
bouffant skirt" [syn: bouffant]
2: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly
distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids";
"swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
[syn: bloated, distended, puffed, swollen, tumescent,
tumid, turgid]
3: breathing heavily [syn: huffing, puffing]
[also: puffiest, puffier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "puffy":
adipose, aeolian, airish, airy, arrogant, beefy, big-bellied,
blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blowzy, blustering, blusterous,
blustery, boreal, bosomy, brawny, breezy, brisk, burly, buxom,
chubby, chunky, corpulent, dilated, distended, drafty, dropsical,
dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, favonian, flatulent,
flawy, fleshy, fresh, full, gassy, gross, gusty, heavyset, hefty,
hippy, important, imposing, incrassate, inflated, lusty,
magisterial, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plethoric, plump,
podgy, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffed up, pursy,
roly-poly, rotund, self-important, squally, square, squat, squatty,
stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffy, swelled, swollen,
thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose,
well-fed, windy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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