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Definition: POWDER PUFF |
POWDER PUFF1. See Puff , n. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impotence | Cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: POWDER PUFF |
| English words defined with "POWDER PUFF": Pluff. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shake Your Powder Puff (1934) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Oh not my powder puff -- I can't spare that : but Mars was adamant. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Product photographs. Perfume bottle and powder puff canister I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "POWDER PUFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pufkë pudre. (various references) | |
Arabic | المذررة قطيفة تجميل الوجه بالمسحوق, المذررة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пухче за пудра (puff). (various references) | |
Czech | labutìnka (puff). (various references) | |
French | houppette (powder-pad), houppe. (various references) | |
German | puderquaste (powder-pad). (various references) | |
Greek | πομπόσ (pompon, sender, transmitter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | púderpamacs (puff). (various references) | |
Italian | piumino della cipria (puff). (various references) | |
Manx | bolgan poodyragh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owderpay uffpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esponja de pó-de-arroz. (various references) | |
Romanian | puf de pulbere. (various references) | |
Russian | пуховка (powderpuff, powder-puff, puff). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pufna za puder. (various references) | |
Spanish | borla para empolvarse. (various references) | |
Swedish | pudervippa (powder-puff, puff). (various references) | |
Turkish | pudra pomponu (puff). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Pseudobombax. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"POWDER PUFF" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: powderpuff. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-o-p-p-r-u-w" | |
-3 letters: pouffed. | |
-4 letters: doffer, duffer, fopped, poufed, pouffe, poured, powder, puffed, puffer, rouped, ruffed. | |
-5 letters: doper, dower, drupe, duper, offed, offer, pedro, perdu, pored, pouff, power, proud, prude, roped, rowed, ruffe, upped, upper, uredo. | |
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