Puff
noun
A smoke or gas that is blown into the air.
A puff of smoke rose from the chimney.
Often appears as...
- puff of smoke
- puff of steam
verb
To blow air or smoke out of your mouth or nose.
The train puffed as it pulled out of the station.
Often appears as...
- puff smoke
- puff breath
noun
A kind of pastry that is light and has many layers.
He enjoyed a cream puff with his coffee.
Often appears as...
- cream puff
- puff pastry
verb
To breathe rapidly and with difficulty, often due to exhaustion.
She was puffing after running up the stairs.
Often appears as...
- puff out
- puff and pant
verb
To praise or make something seem better than it is, often in advertising or marketing context.
The company puffed its latest product at the trade fair.
Often appears as...
- puff up
- puff out
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Disapproving
noun
A short-lived, fluffy or airy hairstyle.
She styled her hair into a puff.
Often appears as...
- hair puff
- puff hairstyle
noun
A smoke or gas that is blown into the air.
A puff of smoke rose from the chimney.
Often appears as...
- puff of smoke
- puff of steam
verb
To blow air or smoke out of your mouth or nose.
The train puffed as it pulled out of the station.
Often appears as...
- puff smoke
- puff breath
noun
A kind of pastry that is light and has many layers.
He enjoyed a cream puff with his coffee.
Often appears as...
- cream puff
- puff pastry
verb
To breathe rapidly and with difficulty, often due to exhaustion.
She was puffing after running up the stairs.
Often appears as...
- puff out
- puff and pant
verb
To praise or make something seem better than it is, often in advertising or marketing context.
The company puffed its latest product at the trade fair.
Often appears as...
- puff up
- puff out
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A short-lived, fluffy or airy hairstyle.
She styled her hair into a puff.
Often appears as...
- hair puff
- puff hairstyle
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Pro Tip 1/2Transient visual
Represents something brief and passing, usually seen just for a moment.
A puff of dust appeared when the book fell.
Pro Tip 2/2Indicator
Often indicates that a mechanical object or a living being started functioning.
Upon ignition, a puff of exhaust came from the old car.
Pro Tip 1/2Transient visual
Represents something brief and passing, usually seen just for a moment.
A puff of dust appeared when the book fell.
Pro Tip 2/2Indicator
Often indicates that a mechanical object or a living being started functioning.
Upon ignition, a puff of exhaust came from the old car.
Pro Tip 1/2Transient visual
Represents something brief and passing, usually seen just for a moment.
A puff of dust appeared when the book fell.
Pro Tip 2/2Indicator
Often indicates that a mechanical object or a living being started functioning.
Upon ignition, a puff of exhaust came from the old car.
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The Brain Science (and...
And I’m not talking about those puffs of air they blow into your eyeballs. That just makes my eyelids flutter thinking about it. But instead it’s when they bring out the wheels of lenses. And they click through them all. And they want to know which lens helps you see better.
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Why do we itch? - Emma...
This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response to this perceived threat. That explains the swelling, and it's the same reason pollen can make your eyes puff up. Histamine also activates the nerves involved in itching,
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Elevating simple...
smoked it again d hi it covered it in mushroom duxelle which is a paste made from mushrooms white wine garlic and onions wrapped it in beet greens and then in puff pastry and baked it like you would a Wellington I served it with creamed sorrel smoked and
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Puffer Fish PIPE National...
game the irony here is that the puffer is protecting both of them the puffer has a poisonous gallbladder if the otter actually ate the puffer they both died puff daddy survives and the otter goes in search of another meal it can sink its teeth into
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"It Really Wasn't the...
hear her huffing and puffing and she tied in to me again but I was really prepared that time and that time she just kind of bit my scalp and tried to claw through my back and then and she left I laid there for a few more seconds and
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Finger Food with Fingers...
put in a deep fryer and what you're gonna wind up having is something like this the displays have been crafted into perfect edible masterpieces or sushi with crickets mealworms puff pastry are balls very nitro-burning It's Showtime
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Where Did Pablo...
so claims the man himself it's possible this puff ignited what some historians call the rage to master a voracious dedication to push the boundaries of one's craft this obsessive personality led Picasso down a lifelong path of
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Meerkat Mob Rule PIPE...
you think the meerkats would vamoose out of there with a threat like this and bad news they bunched tightly together they actually advanced on the puff adder puff adder versus meerkat meerkat versus puff
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Meerkats vs. Puff Adder...
you think the meerkats would vamoose out of there with a threat like this and but knew they bunched tightly together they actually advance on the puff adder puff adder versus meerkat meerkats versus
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Cute Baby Puffin Sees...
chick to you my first puff fling so this this will be the first time this puffin has seen the outside world so I'm just gonna put it in your hand there you go that's it oh look hi hi there kisi come
Video examples
The Brain Science (and...
And I’m not talking about those puffs of air they blow into your eyeballs. That just makes my eyelids flutter thinking about it. But instead it’s when they bring out the wheels of lenses. And they click through them all. And they want to know which lens helps you see better.
Video examples
Why do we itch? - Emma...
This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response to this perceived threat. That explains the swelling, and it's the same reason pollen can make your eyes puff up. Histamine also activates the nerves involved in itching,
Video examples
Elevating simple...
smoked it again d hi it covered it in mushroom duxelle which is a paste made from mushrooms white wine garlic and onions wrapped it in beet greens and then in puff pastry and baked it like you would a Wellington I served it with creamed sorrel smoked and
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Puffer Fish PIPE National...
game the irony here is that the puffer is protecting both of them the puffer has a poisonous gallbladder if the otter actually ate the puffer they both died puff daddy survives and the otter goes in search of another meal it can sink its teeth into
Video examples
"It Really Wasn't the...
hear her huffing and puffing and she tied in to me again but I was really prepared that time and that time she just kind of bit my scalp and tried to claw through my back and then and she left I laid there for a few more seconds and
Video examples
Finger Food with Fingers...
put in a deep fryer and what you're gonna wind up having is something like this the displays have been crafted into perfect edible masterpieces or sushi with crickets mealworms puff pastry are balls very nitro-burning It's Showtime
Video examples
Where Did Pablo...
so claims the man himself it's possible this puff ignited what some historians call the rage to master a voracious dedication to push the boundaries of one's craft this obsessive personality led Picasso down a lifelong path of
Video examples
Meerkat Mob Rule PIPE...
you think the meerkats would vamoose out of there with a threat like this and bad news they bunched tightly together they actually advanced on the puff adder puff adder versus meerkat meerkat versus puff
Video examples
Meerkats vs. Puff Adder...
you think the meerkats would vamoose out of there with a threat like this and but knew they bunched tightly together they actually advance on the puff adder puff adder versus meerkat meerkats versus
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Cute Baby Puffin Sees...
chick to you my first puff fling so this this will be the first time this puffin has seen the outside world so I'm just gonna put it in your hand there you go that's it oh look hi hi there kisi come
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Quote examples
Charlie Puth
American Musician
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing words I wrote, I started kind of choking up, but I tried to be all manly and puff my chest up and be all, 'Yeah, it's not a big deal.
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Keira Knightley
English Actress
But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
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Theresa Rebeck
American Playwright
Why on earth is the 'New Yorker' publishing puff pieces about pretty girls who go to parties? Does the 'New Yorker' ever run photos of cute boys just because they're cute and they come from money and they go to lots of parties?
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Alessandra Mussolini
Italian Politician
Women are strong. We are strong because we are used to the pain which comes every month. It forms character. I want to see the man who goes to the Parliament with the belly puffed out. They can't do it.
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Machine Gun Kelly
American Musician
Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, like, a mentor.
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James McBride
American Writer
I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.
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Amanda Fuller
American Actress
I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.
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Ina Garten
American Author
You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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Anita Diament
American Author
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
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Busy Philipps
American Actress
I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.
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Charlie Puth
American Musician
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing words I wrote, I started kind of choking up, but I tried to be all manly and puff my chest up and be all, 'Yeah, it's not a big deal.
Quote examples
Keira Knightley
English Actress
But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
Quote examples
Theresa Rebeck
American Playwright
Why on earth is the 'New Yorker' publishing puff pieces about pretty girls who go to parties? Does the 'New Yorker' ever run photos of cute boys just because they're cute and they come from money and they go to lots of parties?
Quote examples
Alessandra Mussolini
Italian Politician
Women are strong. We are strong because we are used to the pain which comes every month. It forms character. I want to see the man who goes to the Parliament with the belly puffed out. They can't do it.
Quote examples
Machine Gun Kelly
American Musician
Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, like, a mentor.
Quote examples
James McBride
American Writer
I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.
Quote examples
Amanda Fuller
American Actress
I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.
Quote examples
Ina Garten
American Author
You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
Quote examples
Anita Diament
American Author
The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.
Quote examples
Busy Philipps
American Actress
I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.
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