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Definition: Puff |
PuffAdjective1. Gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves". Noun1. A short light gust of air. 2. A light inflated pastry or puff shell. 3. Exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes). 4. Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together. 5. A fluffy pad for applying powder to the skin. 6. A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly". 7. Forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff". Verb1. Smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe". 2. Suck in or take, as of air; "draw a deep breath"; draw on a cigarette". 3. Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily". 4. Make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego". 5. Praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production". 6. Speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man". 7. To swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs". 8. Blow hard and loudly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Etymology: Puff \Puff\ (p[u^]f), noun. [Akin to German & Swedish puff a blow, Danish puf, Dutch pof; of imitative origin. Compare to Buffet.]. (references) |
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Computing | Puff vt. To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually _named_ `PUFF', but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder. Oppose huff, see inflate. Source: Jargon File. |
Literature | Puff Exaggerated praise. The most popular etymology of this word is pouff, a coiffure employed by the ladies of France in the reign of the Grand Monarque to announce events of interest, or render persons patronised by them popular. Thus, Madame d'Egmont, Duke of Richelieu's daughter, wore on her head a little diamond fortress, with moving sentinels, after her father had taken Port Mahon; and the Duchess of Orleans wore a little nursery, with cradle, baby, and toys complete, after the birth of her son and heir. These, no doubt, were pouffs and puffs, but Lord Bacon uses the word puff a century before the head-gear was brought into fashion. Two other etymons present themselves the old pictures of Fame puffing forth the praises of some hero with her trumpet; and the puffing out of slain beasts and birds in order to make them look plumper and better for food- a plan universally adopted in the abattoirs of Paris. (German, puffen, to brag or make a noise; and French, pouf, our puff.) Puff, in The Critic, by Sheridan. An impudent literary quack. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A short release of effluent. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | PUFF, or PUFFER. One who bids at auctions, not with an intent to buy, but only to raise the price of the lot; for which purpose many are hired by the proprietor of the goods on sale. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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P. Diddy (born November 4, 1970 aka Puff Daddy, Sean "Puffy" Combs) is an American record producer and executive of Bad Boy Entertainment, one of the driving forces in hip hop in the mid to late 1990s. P. Diddy first skyrocketed to fame, signing Father MC, Mary J. Blige, Jodeci, Notorious B.I.G, Faith Evans, 112 and Craig Mack. P. Diddy's own music career, and to a lesser extent, his production, has been criticized as watered-down and overly commercialized for a mainstream market, as well as an over-reliance on sampling for most of his hit songs.
Originally from Harlem, New York City, Combs began attending Howard University in Washington, D.C before becoming an intern at Uptown Records. Only a few months later, Combs was an A&R executive, and helped produce Father's Day (Father MC; 1990), What's the 411 (Mary J. Blige; 1992), Blue Funk (Heavy D & the Boyz; 1992) before being fired in 1993. Combs set up his own label, Bad Boy Entertainment, and soon signed Craig Mack and the Notorious B.I.G. Both quickly released hit singles, followed by similarly successful LPs, particularly B.I.G.'s Ready to Die. Puff Daddy, as he was then known, began signing more acts to Bad Boy, including Faith Evans, 112 and Total, as well as producing for Lil' Kim, TLC, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, SWV, Aretha Franklin and others. Mase and The Lox soon joined Bad Boy, just as a widely publicized rivalry with the West Coast's Death Row Records. Puffy and Notorious B.I.G. were allied against Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight, trading insults in songs and interviews during the mid 1990s. Shakur was murdered by unknown persons in 1996. Six months later, in March of 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. was also murdered. Both cases remain unsolved. Biggie's second album was a huge posthumous success.
Puff Daddy began his own career in 1997, releasing "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", followed by "I'll Be Missing You". Both singles were successful, though "I'll Be Missing You" (a tribute to Biggie with guests Faith Evans and 112) was heavily criticized for sampling The Police's "Every Break You Take" and adding little. Puff Daddy, plus various labelmates known as the Family, released No Way Out, an LP, in 1998. The album also produced the hit singles "It's All About The Benjamins," which featured Lil Kim, The Lox and The Notorious B.I.G and had a popular rock remix, which was worked on by Rob Zombie and the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, among others; and "Been Around The World," a song that featured Puffy's lablemate, Mase, and the late Notorious B.I.G, and was probably best remembered for having sampled David Bowie's "Let's Dance" and Lisa Stansfield's "All Around The World". The song's video starred many celebrities, such as Wyclef Jean, Quincy Jones, and Puff Daddy's future love interest, Jennifer Lopez. "I'll Be Missing You" won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, while No Way Out won Best Rap Album. Puffy's follow-up was 1999's failed Forever, which was a commercial failure and no more well-reviewed than No Way Out.
On April 15, 2000, Puffy was accused of beating Steve Stoute of Interscope Records. Stoute was the manager for Nas, whose video for "Hate Me Now" (off I Am) featured Puffy being crucified. Though Puffy had willingly filmed the video earlier that year, he demanded that the images be removed. Stoute's refusal led to an argument and Puffy's arrest for assault. This was followed by a yet more negative publicity as The Lox left Bad Boy Records, and a recording session with Lil' Kim and Lil' Cease was interrupted by gunfire. Most importantly, Puffy and his then-girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, were present at a shooting in a New York nightclub. After a police investigation, Puffy (and fellow rapper Shyne) was arrested for weapons violations and other charges. Puffy was indicted after a huge blow to his case; his driver claimed that Puffy had tried to bribe him into taking the weapon after the shooting. With bribery charges added to the bill, Puffy was being attacked in the tabloids on a near daily basis. Before the trial was over, Puffy found himself in court on numerous civil charges. One was from a girl who claimed to have been mentally scarred at a party ten years before, and another was for sampling a phone conversation without permission. His driver and the club owner also sued before the shooting charges even made it to trial. With a gag order in place, the highly-publicized trial began. A talent agency then sued Puffy for unfair competition, as did a woman who rented an apartment owned by Puffy; she claimed he refused to rid the house of vermin. Puffy then launched his own lawsuit against a writer who did not follow through on an alleged agreement to help write his autobiography. Puffy was soon acquitted of all charges relating to the shooting incident, followed almost immediately by a break-up with Lopez. With the media circus over, Puffy changed his name to P. Diddy.
P. Diddy tried to reinvent his image, but was once again in court facing assault charges from a Michigan television host, and then an arrest for driving on a suspended license in Florida. In spite of continuing legal problems, P. Diddy released a much-delayed gospel album, Thank You, as well as a solo hip hop LP, The Saga Continues. After yet more legal problems stemming from an accusation of reckless driving by the Miami police, Puffy began working with a series of unusual (for him) artists. A collaboration with David Bowie appeared on the soundtrack to Training Day, while Puffy began working with Britney Spears and *N Sync.
This was followed by a serious set-back for Bad Boy Record when Arista Records stopped distributed Bad Boy releases. Faith Evans left the label, and 112 almost did, though P. Diddy filed a restraining order to keep them aboard.
In later 2002, he made his own reality show on MTV called Making the Band 2, the sequel to the first Making the Band. In it, contestants compete to be in a new group on Bad Boy Records. The six finalists have to come up with their name, CD and video.
In 2003 P. Diddy ran the New York marathon and raised $2 million Dollars for the educational system for the children of New York.
External links
- Sean John Official site
- P. Diddy Official site
- P.Diddy Official Marathon site
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "P. Diddy."
Synonyms: PuffSynonyms: puffed (adj), blow (n), comforter (n), drag (n), powderpuff (n), puff of air (n), pull (n), quilt (n), blow up (v), chuff (v), draw (v), gasp (v), heave (v), huff (v), pant (v), puff out (v), puff up (v), whiff (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Commend, belaud, praise, laud, compliment; pay a tribute, bepraise; clap the hands; applaud, cheer, acclamate, encore; panegyrize, eulogize, cry up, proner, puff; extol, extol to the skies; magnify, glorify, exalt, swell, make much of; flatter; bless, give a blessing to; have a good word for, say a good word for; speak well of, speak highly of, speak in high terms of; sing the praises of, sound the praises of, chaunt the praises of; resound the praises of; sing praises to; cheer to the echo, applaud to the echo, applaud to the very echo, cheer to the very echo. |
Boasting | Verb: boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush, bluff. |
Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration. | |
Exaggeration | Storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing; (overestimation); puff, puffery; (boasting); rant; (turgescence). |
Heighten, overcolor; color highly, color too highly; broder; flourish; color; (misrepresent); puff; (boast). | |
Expansion | Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten. |
Fatigue | Verb: be fatigued; Adjective: yawn; (get sleepy); droop, sink, flag; lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb. |
Flattery | Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust. |
Impotence | Cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch. |
Pulverulence | Smoke; cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke; puff of smoke, volume of smoke; sand storm, dust storm. |
Untruth | Press agent's yarn; puff, puffery (exaggeration). |
Vanity | Render vain; Adjective: inspire with vanity; Noun: inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head. |
Wind | Respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough. |
Noun: wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, breeze, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Puff |
| English words defined with "puff": A capful of wind ♦ beef Wellington, bloat, Blub, Boln, bouchee ♦ Chou, cream puff ♦ drag ♦ eclair, Efflate, Efflation, Effume ♦ filet de boeuf en croute, French pastry, Fuff ♦ leaven ♦ pant, patty shell, Pluff, Plumed adder, popover, Powder puff, prove, Puff adder, puffing adder, pull ♦ raise, River jack ♦ Strout ♦ toke ♦ Valsalvian experiment, vol-au-vent ♦ whiff, Whiffet, Whiffle ♦ Yorkshire pudding. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puff": cereal popper ♦ Hubbard distributor ♦ practice mine, PUFF GUTS ♦ TENDER PARNELL, top shot ♦ UMBRELLA FINISHER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "puff": Thelphusian. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Puff" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (bang, biff, blow, bop, brothel, buffet, cathouse, dig, nudge, phut, pouf, prod, puff, swelling, thump, toke, whorehouse), Hungarian (buffet, dumpy, hassock, ottoman, plop, pop, pouf, pouffe, stool, thwack), Spanish (pouf, pouffe), Swedish (boost, phut, puff, push, shove, whiff). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well some people think that 'to puff the magic dragon' means to puff smoke marijuana cigarettes (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) Never in all my puff. Since I was on remand, they've had me on this program, this state sponsored addiction (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Not by the hair of your chiny-chin-chin? Well then I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) I never faint because I am not sure that I will fall gracefully and I never use smelling salts because they puff up the eyes (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus) Puff. (Final Fantasy VII; writing credit: Kouze Ide; Kazushige Nojima) | |
Lyrics | But any way i am geting paid wit puff now (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob) I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle ("El Paso"; performing artist: Marty Robbins) Now I'm old I puff my pipe but no one's there to see (Good Company; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May) The more weed smoke I puff, the more dangerous (Warning; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Huff and Puff (1955) Shake Your Powder Puff (1934) Threads: Things That Go Puff in the Dark (2001) Der Papst und das Puff Es lebe die Liebe (1993) Cream Puff (1986) | |
Song Titles | Puff The Magic Dragon (performing artist: Paul and Mary Peter) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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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. |  | I'll huff and I'll puff --. 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. | |||
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| "Swan Dessert" by Alan Lee Commentary: "Yummy swan shaped creme puff dessert." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Here a cannon would go boom, and thunder would go puff. |
Imitation of Horace | John Dryden | I can enjoy her while she 's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes the wings and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For quick-relief medicine take as needed and count each puff. Do not put your canister in water to see if it is empty. (references) | |
The use of a special type of otoscope called a pneumatic otoscope allows the physician to blow a puff of air onto the eardrum to test eardrum movement. (references) | ||
By inhaling, the smoker can get nicotine to the brain very rapidly with every puff. A typical smoker will take 10 puffs on a cigarette over a period of 5 minutes that the cigarette is lit. Thus, a person who smokes about 1-1/2 packs (30 cigarettes) daily, gets 300 "hits" of nicotine to the brain each day. These factors contribute considerably to nicotine's highly addictive nature. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Puff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.80% of the time. "Puff" is used about 250 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 72.8% | 182 | 22,870 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 16.4% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.2% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.6% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 250 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "puff" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Puff | Last name | 400 | 19,483 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "puff": cream puff ♦ huff and puff ♦ noodle puff ♦ out of puff ♦ powder puff ♦ puff adder ♦ puff along ♦ puff and blow ♦ puff and pant ♦ puff at ♦ puff away ♦ puff ball ♦ puff batter ♦ puff bird ♦ puff box ♦ puff itself up ♦ puff like a grampus ♦ puff of air ♦ puff of flame and smoke ♦ puff of smoke ♦ puff oneself up ♦ puff out ♦ puff out one's cheeks ♦ puff out rings of smoke ♦ puff paste ♦ puff pastry ♦ puff sleeves ♦ puff smoke ♦ puff up ♦ rough puff pastry. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "puff": puff-and-blow, puff-ball, puff-balls, puff-fish, puff-jawed, Puff-leg, Puff-legged, puff-pastry, puff-pastry cake, puff-puff, puff-puffed, puff-up. | |
Ending with "puff": air-puff, cream-puff, powder-puff, puff-puff, squirt-by-puff. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
puff daddy | 1,875 | puff pastry recipe | 55 |
power puff girl | 1,318 | puff retro | 50 |
puff the magic dragon | 353 | cocoa puff | 45 |
puff | 279 | hr puff n stuff | 44 |
picture of power puff girl | 228 | daddy i ll lyrics missing puff | 33 |
puff daddy lyrics | 135 | coloring girl page power puff | 33 |
cream puff | 118 | adder puff | 32 |
dragon lyrics magic puff | 104 | puff n stuff | 30 |
girls.com power puff | 98 | i ll and be and missing and you and puff and daddy | 28 |
daddy diddy p puff | 95 | puff ursinho | 28 |
puff pastry | 89 | girl power puff wallpaper | 26 |
cream puff recipe | 86 | coco puff | 26 |
power puff | 84 | puff quilt | 25 |
com girl power puff | 83 | power puff girl pic | 24 |
powder puff girl | 68 | puff chair | 23 |
powder puff | 68 | puff johnson | 23 |
power puff girl game | 66 | puff daddy pic | 23 |
puff dady | 62 | bubble girl power puff | 22 |
puff daddy picture | 57 | chinese crested powder puff | 19 |
puff diddy | 56 | hazing powder puff | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "puff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pufe pudre, tymos (fume, smoke out, smoke-dry, whiff), tortë me krem, shtëllungë tymi, shfryj (blast, blow, bluster, decompress, frown, grumble, huff, inveigh, leak, let off steam, natter, vituperate, whiffle, wreak), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), mburrje (arrogance, bluster, boast, bounce, brag, braggery, bravado, fanfaronade, gasconade, hokum, jactation, jactitation, rodomontade, splurge, swank, talk big, vainglory, vaunt), lavdëroj (belaud, commend, emblazon, eulogize, exalt, extol, glorify, glory, Laud, magnify, panegyrize, praise, vaunt), lëmsh (ball, clew, clot, jam, jumbal, jumble, mass, mix, mix up, pell mell, pellet, ruck, tangle, welter, winding), gulçoj (absorb, blow, breath rapidly, crepitate, gasp, gulp, heave, howl, pant, wheeze, whoop), gulçim (crepitation, gasp, hard breathing, howl, pant, panting, wheeze), fryrje (blow, blowing, bounce, bulge, distention, flatulence, flatulency, hot air, inflation, injection, insufflation, puffery, vainglory, wind), frymë (breath, head, none, psyche, spirit, wind), fryj (be sulky, blow, blow out, breathe, buzz off, clear off, distend, inflate, overblow, pout at, puff out, swell, wind), duhmë (whiff). (various references) | |
Arabic | تكلم بإزدراء, أوقف الشعر, إنتفاخ طفيف, إنتفخ (bag, balloon, belly, billow, bloat, bulge, distend, fill, fluff, heave, inflate, strut, swell), الجزء المنتفخ من الثوب, طرى (applaud, approve, baste, commend, compliment, crack, dress, flatter, flattering, refresh, salute, soften, supple, tender), علبة البودرة (powder box, vanity case), دخن من غليونه, تحدث بإزدراء, فطيرة منتفخة, لهث (be out of breath, blow, breath heavily, gasp, pant, wheeze), نفث الدخان, نفخ (balloon, be puffed up, belly out, bloat, blow up, distend, distension, fill out, inflate, inflation, insufflation, plump, pout, pumping, sulk, swell out, windiness), نفخة (blast, breath, flatulence, flatulency, gust, whiff), هبة (benevolence, bestowal, blast, boon, bounty, charity, contribution, donation, endowment, gift, grant, liberality, offering, outburst, present, privilege, waft, whiff), مدحة أو مديح, تعجرف (strut, swagger). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лъх (breathing, odor, odour, tincture, tinge, whiff), духам (blow), дъх (aroma, blowing, breath, respiration, savor, savour, tincture, tinge, wind), издувам (blow off, blow out, swell), изпускам кълба дим (whiff), избухване (belch, burst, detonation, eruption, explosion, flying, outbreak, outburst), подухвам (blow lightly, whiff), полъх (breath of air, breathing, breeze, waft, whiff, zephyr), полъхвам (flicker, waft, whiffle), полъхване, повей (breath, whiff), пухена покривка за легло, пухтя (chug, huff, snort), дишам тежко (pant), букла (curl, tress), смукване (aspiration, pull), еклер, облаче (cloudlet), вея (blow, fan, flaunt, flirt, winnow), взрив (blast, burst, detonation, explosion, outburst, report), вълмо (roll, saltwort, sliver), кълбо (ball, balloon, globe, orb, sphere), шумна реклама, фукане (show, side), хваля прекомерно, разнасям (carry, deliver, disseminate, hawk, set about, spread), разчесвам коса за да бухне, рекламирам (advertise, advertize, boom, boost, headline, promote, publicize, push, quack, sell), силно набрана част на дреха, пухче за пудра (powder puff). (various references) | |
Chinese | 吹 (blast, boast, brag, end in failure, to blow). (various references) | |
Czech | závan (blast, blow, flatus, guff, gust, wag, whiff), vyfouknout, vydechnutí (exhalation, expiration), supìt (chug, pant, snort, wheeze), nafouknutá pochvala, lehké peèivo, labutìnka (powder puff), funìt (gasp, snort, wheeze), dryáènická reklama (ballyhoo, puffery), bafat (chug, whiff). (various references) | |
Danish | puff (chromosomal puff), puf (first blow, first puff, preblowing, puffing), pot (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, marihuana, marijuana, Mary Jane, pot, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), græs (grass, herb). (various references) | |
Dutch | pof (swelling), poef (swelling). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pufo (swelling). (various references) | |
Farsi | مشروب گازدار, دودویابخار, غذای پف دار, وزش باد, وزیدن (Blow, Whiff), قسمت پف کرده جامه زنانه , بلوف زدن , چپق یاسیگارکشیدن , فوت (Death, Gust, Snuff), منفجرشدن (Blowout, Detonate, Erupt, Explode), منفجرکردن (Blowup, Burst, Dynamite), پف (Snuff, Whiff), پف کردن (Puffy), پک زدن , پفک (Blowgun), لاف زدن (Brag, Rodomontade, Yelp). (various references) | |
Finnish | puffi (chromosomal puff), PUFF, pöllähdystää, pöllähdys, tuprutella, tupruta (blow about, whirl), ilmapuffi, henkäys (breath, whiff), haiku (whiff). (various references) | |
French | souffle, bouffée (puft). (various references) | |
German | PUFF (bang, biff, blow, bop, brothel, buffet, cathouse, dig, nudge, phut, pouf, prod, swelling, thump, toke, whorehouse), Bausch (ball, bustle, pleat, swelling, wad). (various references) | |
Greek | φυσώ (blast, blow, snort, whiff), λαχανιάζω (blow, gasp, pant), εμφύσηση (inflation), εξόγκωμα (protuberance, protuberancy), φουσκώνω (billow, bloat, blow up, bulge, distend, expand, fill out, inflate, pump, pump up, surge, swell), φούσκα (bladder, blister, bubble, cyst, windbag), τολύπη (flake), φυσιώ, κωλομπαράς (queer), φύσημα (blast, blatancy, blow, flurry, gust, snort, whiff), χόρτο (grass, herb), υπερεγκωμιάζω, πνοή (breath, whiff), μπουφέσ (buffet, dresser), βραχύχρονη έκλυση, φούσκωμα (bump, flatulence, flatulency, inflation, swell, swelling, tumidness, turgidity, turgidness, upsurge). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משב (blast, blowing, breeze, gust), מציצה (suck, sucking out, suction), להפליג בשבח (overpraise), לצבות (swell), לנשוף (blow, exhale), לנפח (bamboozle, blow up, exaggerate, inflate, swell, word), נשיפה (blow out, exhalation, expiration). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pöfékelés, lehelet (aura, aurae, breath, breathing, expiration), fuvalom (breath). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tiupan (breath), menggembungkan, mengepulkan, kepulan. (various references) | |
Italian | soffio (bladder, blister, blow, breath, bubble, murmur, souffle, waft, whiff, whiffle), sbuffo (chug, qust, snort, whiff, whiffle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 膨らみ (bulge, swelling), 脹らみ (bulge, swelling), パノラマ写真 (palladium, panoramic photograph, Papa, papaya, paprika, papyrus, parachute, parachute skirt, paradigm, paradigm shift, paradise, paraglider, paragraph, parapsychology, paraquat, parasail, parasite single, parasol, Parathion, paratyphus, parfait, pavilion, Pavlov, performance, perfume, perfumer, pub, public, public acceptance, public corporation, public course, public domain, public house, public opinion, public relations, public school, public servant, public space, publicity, puff sleeve, puppy), 一吹き (a blast, gust, whiff). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パフ , ひとふき (a blast, gust, whiff), ふくらみ (bulge, swelling). (various references) | |
Korean | 분첩. (various references) | |
Manx | soailtagh (effeminate, effeminate man, queer, sissy), sheidey seose (balloon, inflate), sheidey (blast, blast of wind, blow, blow of whale, blowing, breathe, breeze, bugle, distention, dynamite, fill out, fire away, gust, honk, sound, spell of wind, spout, toot, toot on horn, waft, wafting), sheidag (draught of air, flurry, flurry of wind), sheid (blast, blast on instrument, blow, blow of wind, drift), sheebage (whiff), sheeb (a sharp scold, cry, drift, gust), pussal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uffpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sopro (blow, blowing, breath, souffle, whiff). (various references) | |
Romanian | pufãi (pant, whiff), pudra (dredge, powder, whiten), pufãi din, plapumã (blanket, counterpane, coverlet, quilt), umfla (bag, belly, blow, bunt, expand, fill, fill out, grow, heighten, inflate, overdraw, pad, swell), adiere (air, aura, breath, breathing, breeze, gale, whiff, wind, zephyr), bubã (abscess, boil, bruise, drawback, hindrance, sorrow, swelling, trouble, ulcer), face pe grozavul (be on stilts, feel one's oats, prance, show off, Snoot, swank, talk big, talk through one's hat), fuma (have a smoke, smoke), gâfâi (blow, gasp, pant, roar, wheeze), lãuda exagerat (oversell), adia (blow, breathe, wave, whiff), suflare (blow, blowing, breath, breathing, draught, waft, wind), umflãturã (boss, bulge, caruncle, core, excrescence, gibbosity, lump, misgrowth, swelling, tumor, tumour), trâmbã (sandstorm, troop, whirlwind), reclamã zgomotoasã (ballyhoo, boom), respira greu (blow, throttle), sufla (blow, blow one's nose, breathe, gasp, prompt, whiff, whisper), sufla în (blow, blow up, breathe, puff out), laudã exageratã (puffery). (various references) | |
Russian | пуховка (powder puff, powderpuff, powder-puff). (various references) | |
Scottish | puth (a puff), séid (blow, breathe upon or into, inflate, pant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pufna, pućkati, udarac (beat, blow, bogey, bunt, dig, hit, impact, jolt, lash, lick, punch, stroke, thwack, wallop, whack), naduvati (blow up, distend, inflate, puff at, puff up), naduti (bloat, inflate, swell), izbacivanje (deletion, drop, ejection, ejectment, throw out), ispuštati (blow off, give off, let out), dah (breath, whiff, wind), brektanje (chug). (various references) | |
Spanish | golpe de soplado, bocanada (mouthful, whiff), bollo esponjado, bombo (bass drum, disconcerts, drum), borla (ball, Bob, bobble, pompon, tassel), buñuelo (doughnut, fritter, pancake, sinker), bullón (bubble, dibber, dibble, dibbler, planting stick, widger), chorro (blast, effluent, flow, gush, jet, spirt, squirt, stream, swash, trickle), dar chupadas a (puff at, pull), descarga instantánea, echar bocanadas de (puff out), echar humo (fume), echar vapor (steam), abultamiento cromosómico (chromosomal puff), gloria (fame, glory, kudos, stardom, triumph), tila (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pot, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), grifa (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, griffe, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pot, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), hierba (Clary, grass, herb), hinchazón (flatulence, flatulency, lump, puffiness, swelling), jadear (blow, gasp, huff, pant, puff and pant, wheeze), mandanga (bash, boo 4)draw, cannabis, grass, hagga, hay, Indian hay, Mary Jane, pot, root, smoke, snop, tea, viper's weed, weed), maría (María, Mary), moña (bow), racha (air blast, gust of wind, squall, streak), rama (bough, branch, embranchment, leaf, limb, line), resoplido (pant, snort), soplar (blow, blow up, fan, grass, inform, peach, prompt, set, sit, split, tell, waft), soplo (blast, blow, blowing, breath, gust, tip, waft, whiff), edredón (comforter, duvet, eiderdown, quilt). (various references) | |
Swedish | vippa (panicle, tilt, tip, wave), vindstöt (blast, squall), pust (breath, whiff), PUFF (boost, phut, push, shove, whiff), pudervippa (powder puff, powder-puff), flåsa (blow, huff, pant), blåsa (bister, bladder, blister, blow, blowing, bubble, huff, suck in, vesicular, whistle, wind). (various references) | |
Turkish | püflemek, püf (humph, pish, pooh, pshaw), pudra pomponu (powder puff), puf (ottoman, pouf, pouffe), puf böreği (puff pastry), üfürük, üf (whew), kabarmak (arch, blister, bloat, bloat out, heave, rise, roughen, surge, swell, tumefy, upsurge, vesicate), övmek (acclaim, accord praise, belaud, boost, build up, celebrate, commend, compliment, crack up, cry up, emblazon, eulogize, exalt, extol, extoll, flatter, glorify, magnify, panegyrize, pay tribute, praise, sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of, speak in praise of smb., talk up, vaunt), şişme (distension, inflatable, inflated, intumescence, puffing, swell, swelling, tumefaction), üflemek (blow, blow out, breathe upon, insufflate, puff out, whiff, whiffle), aşırı övgü (puffery, rhapsody), abartılı reklâm (puffing), şişirme (fustian, inflation, overcharge, overstatement, puffery, puffing, puffing up, swelling, tumefaction, turgescence, verbiage), şişirmek (bag, balloon, bloat, bloat up, blow up, bulk, distend, embroider, exaggerate, expand, fill, heave, heighten, inflate, overcharge, pad, pad out, pile it on, puff up, pump, pump up, put it on, put it on thick, run up, swell out, swell up, tumefy), şişlik (blain, boss, chilblain, intumescence, protuberance, proud flesh, puffiness, rising, swelling, thickening, turgescence), üfleme (blast, blow, blowing, insufflation, puffing, wind), bukle (coil, corkscrew curls, curl, frizz, hank, lock, Lovelock, pouf, pouffe, ringlet), öve öve bitirememek (beslaver, cry up, praise to the skies, puff up, rhapsodize, rhapsodize over smth., sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of), kabarıklık, tellendirmek, kabartı (blotch, bulging, exanthema, protuberance, puffiness, pustule, raise, swelling, tumefaction, whelk), kabartmak (blister, bloat, bloat up, fluff, fluff out, fluff up, puff up, raise, roughen, roughen up, ruffle, scribble, tease, vesicate), lüle (curl, lock, pipe bowl, pouf, pouffe, ringlet, tress), nefes nefese kalma, soluğu tükenmek, soluğunu kesmek, tüttürmek (give out smoke, smoke), esinti (air, blow, breath, breeze, waft, whiff, wind, zephyr). (various references) | |
Turkmen | hyssyldamak (pant, sweat), burugsamak (swirl). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | буфи, диміти (smoke), дути поривчасто, дута реклама (puffery), пихкати (wheeze), порив вітру, димок (whiffet), пушок (aigrette, flue, pubes, pubescence), струмінь повітря, здуття (flatus), звук видиху, гуля (bump, knurl), чванитися (Peacock, plume oneself, swagger), рекламувати (advertise, advertize, blurb, boom, boost, glamorize, glamourize, publicize, push, sell, write up), слойка, пудрити. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | luồng khói phụt ra... tiếng thổi phù, luồng hơi phụt ra, luồng gió thổi phụt qua, lời tâng bốc láo (puffery), lời quảng cáo láo (puffery), hơi thở phù. (various references) | |
Welsh | pwffio (blast), pwff (blast), piff (sudden blast), peuo (bellow), chwa (blast, breeze, gust). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | spiramen. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | bouffer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puff": puffball, puffballs, puffed, puffer, pufferies, puffers, puffery, puffier, puffiest, puffily, puffin, puffiness, puffinesses, puffing, puffins, puffs, puffy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "puff": creampuff. (additional references) | |
Words containing "puff": creampuffs. (additional references) | |
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"Puff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auff, juff, nuff, pauf, pff, Pfui, Piff, Piffa, pof, poff, pouff, Ppfe, pruf, pruff, puf, puffe, puft, uff, wuff. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puff" (pronounced pu"f) |
| 2 | -u" f | bluff, buff, cuff, Duff, enough, fluff, gruff, guff, huff, Luff, muff, rebuff, rough, ruff, scuff, Slough, snuff, stuff, tough, Tuff. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-f-p-u" | |
-2 letters: up. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-f-p-u" | |
+1 letter: pouff, puffs, puffy. | |
+2 letters: pouffe, pouffs, puffed, puffer, puffin, putoff. | |
+3 letters: jumpoff, pouffed, pouffes, puffers, puffery, puffier, puffily, puffing, puffins, putoffs. | |
+4 letters: jumpoffs, puffball, puffiest. | |
+5 letters: creampuff, puffballs, pufferies, puffiness. | |
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