puff

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
2. isim The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.

   “out of puff”

3. isim A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.

   “puff of smoke”

4. isim A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.

   “to every puff of wind a slave”

5. isim An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
6. isim The drug cannabis.
7. isim A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.

   “[…] though I care not one straw for the personal puffs of which I myself am so often the subject […]”

8. isim A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.

   “a sleeve with a puff at the shoulder”

9. isim A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.

   “cream puff”

10. isim A puffball.

    “Bozzacchio, an acorne. Also a puffe or mushrump full of dust.”

11. isim A powder puff.
12. isim A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; an act or scam of that type.

    “He was the eighteenth century king of spin, or, in the language of the day, the "prince of puff".”

13. isim A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
14. isim Life.

    “Isn't this the chance of a lifetime? Have either of you ever made a couple of quids at once in your puff before—pinching goods from the back of delivery vans and smooching lead off empty houses?”

15. isim Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
16. fiil To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.

    “Still on the down line, the engine puffed away to the South, and in a few moments had disappeared in the darkness!”

17. fiil To pant.

    “By and by comes the ass back again, Puffing and Blowing, from the Chase.”

18. fiil To advertise.
19. fiil To blow as an expression of scorn.

    “It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.”

20. fiil To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.

    “'tis easy for a man to have a great opinion of his own knowledge , and be puff'd up by it”

21. fiil To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.

    “Then came brave Glory puffing by.”

22. fiil To drive with a puff, or with puffs.

    “The clearing north will puff the clouds away.”

23. fiil To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.

    “I puff the prostitute away.”

24. fiil To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.

    “a bladder puffed with air”

25. fiil To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.

    “puffed up with military success”

26. fiil To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.

    “puffed with wonderful skill”