Hypertext Webster Gateway: "puffy"
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) 1.7 (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}]
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