puffy

3 definitions found

puffy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
        [1913 Webster]

puffy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  puffy
      adj 1: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a
             bouffant skirt" [syn: bouffant, puffy]
      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:
         puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid]
      3: blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-
         shore winds"; "gusty winds " [syn: gusty, puffy]

puffy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "puffy":
     adipose, aeolian, airish, airy, arrogant, beefy, big-bellied,
     blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blowzy, blustering, blusterous,
     blustery, boreal, bosomy, brawny, breezy, brisk, burly, buxom,
     chubby, chunky, corpulent, dilated, distended, drafty, dropsical,
     dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, favonian, flatulent,
     flawy, fleshy, fresh, full, gassy, gross, gusty, heavyset, hefty,
     hippy, important, imposing, incrassate, inflated, lusty,
     magisterial, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plethoric, plump,
     podgy, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffed up, pursy,
     roly-poly, rotund, self-important, squally, square, squat, squatty,
     stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffy, swelled, swollen,
     thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose,
     well-fed, windy