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Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.

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  1. a. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.
  2. a. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
  3. adj. being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
  4. adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
  5. adj. blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts
  6. 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.
  7. j:100 s. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas