Hypertext Webster Gateway: "puffed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Puff \Puff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Puffed} (p[u^]ft); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Puffing}.] [Akin to G. puffen to pop, buffet, puff,
D. poffen to pop, puffen to blow, Sw. puffa to push, to cuff,
Dan. puffe to pop, thump. See {Puff}, n.]
1. To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
2. To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.
--South.
3. To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent
exertion.
The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from
the chase. --L' Estrange.
4. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated. --Boyle.
5. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner;
hence, to assume importance.
Then came brave Glory puffing by. --Herbert.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
puffed
adj 1: 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}, {puffy}, {swollen},
{tumescent}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
2: gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves" [syn: {puff}]
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