puffy
pronunciation
How to pronounce puffy in British English:
UK [ˈpʌfi]
How to pronounce puffy in American English:
US [ˈpʌfi]
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- Adjective:
- being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
- abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
- breathing heavily
Word Origin
- puffy (adj.)
- 1610s, of wind, "gusty," from puff + -y (2). Of other things, "swollen," from 1660s. Earliest attested use is figurative, "bombastic" (1590s). Related: Puffily; puffiness.
Example
- 1. Its fibers are ground , boiled , bleached and pressed into puffy white material that can absorb what a baby can excrete .
- 2. Perfect pillow : one puffy one . The goal is to keep your head and neck supported without propping your head up too much .
- 3. Toward the beginning of my adventure , I was in a place of clouds . Big , puffy , pink-white ones that showed up sharply against the deep blue-black sky .
- 4. I shock the box about a bit and closed my eyes -- don 't ask me why -- and picked out a sharp slice of photo . I looked at the picture side first . A bit of white puffy meringue wedding dress was evident , but nothing else .
- 5. This is iike a puffy party .