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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  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.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.
  
     2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  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]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  puffy
     a.
     1 swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
     2 Coming or exhaling in puffs.
     3 Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important
  manner.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  puffy
     a.
     1 swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
     2 Coming or exhaling in puffs.
     3 Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important
  manner.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  puffy
     a.
     1 swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
     2 Coming or exhaling in puffs.
     3 Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important
  manner.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  puffy
     a.
     1 swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
     2 Coming or exhaling in puffs.
     3 Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important
  manner.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  puffy
     Englanti a.
     1 turvonnut, pöhöttynyt
     2 pöyheä, pullea
     3 puuskuttava, hengästynyt
     4 mahtaileva

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Puffy /pˈʌfi/
  منتفخ

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  puffy //ˈpʌfi// 
  високопарен, надут
  exaggeratedly eloquent speaking or writing

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  puffy /pˈʌfi/ 
  oteklý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  puffy /pˈʌfi/
  bauschig 
     Synonym: bouffant

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  puffy /pˈʌfi/
  geschwollen, verschwollen, verquollen 
   see: puffier, puffiest

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]


  puffy /pˈʌfi/ 
  1. उभरा हुआ
        "The cake seems to be very puffy."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]


  puffy /pˈʌfi/
  naduven, namješten, natečen, neprirodan, podbuo, razmetljiv, silovit

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]


  puffy /pˈʌfi/
  1. dagadt
  2. kövér
  3. kifulladt
  4. puffadt

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]


  puffy /ˈpʌfɪ/ 
    obrzmiały

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]


  puffy /pˈʌfi/
  1. şişkin, kabarık
  2. tantanalı, görkemli, abartmalı
  3. püfür püfür esen. puffily  püfür püfür. puffiness  şişkinlik.

From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]

/ˈpəfi/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]


  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

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]


  a. 胀大的,肥满的,喘气的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]


     a. 胀大的,肥满的,喘气的,一阵阵吹的

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