Thesaurus: puffy
Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.
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Definitions
- a. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.
- a. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
- adj. being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
- adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
- adj. blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts
- 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.
- j:100 s. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas