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Definition: Puffy |
PuffyAdjective1. Being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt". 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". 3. Breathing heavily. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puffy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
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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
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Puffy (in Japan) or Puffy Amiyumi as they are known in the United States (due to Puff Daddy and legal reasons), are a Japanese pop duo. Ami and Yumi (names of the duo) were scouted by two different talent agencies and put together in 1995. Their first release "Asia no junshin" sold a million records and their success continued with several more full-length releases (totalling 14 million sales in Japan). They hosted their own weekly TV show with guests like Lenny Kravitz, Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, rock band Garbage and so on.Their music has been largely a collaboration between producer Tamio Okuda, singer songwriter, Andy Sturmer, regular session musicians and lastly Ami and Yumi themselves. Ami and Yumi's vocals are likened to US vocal sister group The Roches. They often sing whole songs together with harmonies. The songs borrow heavily from the Beatles and other artists such as Abba, The Who and The Carpenters.
Puffy Amiyumi's album releases include: JET CD, Spike, Fever Fever, Nice.
After 2000 they have been less in the limelight in native Japan with their TV show winding up in 2002. Instead they have set the compass for the USA with promotional tours, releasing previous Japanese releases and now a song from the latest album (2003) features on children's animated TV program "Teenage Titans". This might be the reason for the increase in English language songs in their repertoire.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Puffy Amiyumi."
Synonyms: PuffySynonyms: bloated (adj), bouffant (adj), distended (adj), huffing (adj), puffed (adj), puffing (adj), swollen (adj), tumescent (adj), tumid (adj), turgid (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expansion | Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying. |
Size | Lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy; (swollen). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Puffy |
| English words defined with "puffy": aflame ♦ bloated ♦ cheese souffle, crimson ♦ distended ♦ flushed, Fozy, Fuffy ♦ german pancake ♦ pfannkuchen, puffed, puffed rice, puffed wheat ♦ red, reddened, red-faced ♦ swelling, swollen ♦ tumescent, tumid, Turgent, turgid ♦ Yorkshire pudding. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "puffy": Fozy. (references) |
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Screenplays | Or the puffy shirt, pirate slash- (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Puffy is rough He is Tough and will kick your ass westside (Held Up; writing credit: Jeff Eastin; Erik Fleming) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Puffy cumulus illuminated by late afternoon sun far below a NOAA P-3 returning to base at after a mission. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Wee Willie Winkie's world. It was such a fine day! : great clouds with puffy, wind-blown cheeks ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Puffy clouds" by Euphemia Toong Commentary: "Anglic looking clouds.." |
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| "Puffy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "Puffy" is used about 57 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 89.47% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.77% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "puffy": puffy shirt. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "puffy": puffy-eyed, puffy-lipped. | |
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| 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 |
puffy nipples | 2,357 | puffy lip | 28 |
puffy | 757 | erect nipples puffy | 24 |
puffy tit | 272 | beach puffy | 23 |
puffy eyes | 246 | puffy niples | 23 |
puffy nipple | 244 | puffy nipples free pic | 21 |
free puffy nipples | 112 | puffy comb | 20 |
puffy nip | 84 | amiyumi puffy | 19 |
sean puffy comb | 81 | large puffy nipples | 19 |
big puffy nipples | 65 | puffy teen tit | 18 |
puffy pussy | 59 | ami puffy yumi | 17 |
long puffy nipples | 59 | puffy nipples gallery | 16 |
puffy breast | 58 | free puffy nipple pic | 16 |
puffy teen | 51 | huge puffy nipples | 16 |
teen puffy nipples | 51 | free puffy nipple picture | 15 |
areola puffy | 48 | puffy boob | 15 |
puffy nipple gallery | 45 | small puffy nipples | 15 |
puffy nipples pic | 43 | puffy eyelid | 14 |
puffy daddy | 35 | puffy nipple picture | 13 |
young puffy nipples | 32 | puffy nipples tgp | 13 |
puffy nipple pic | 29 | tiny tit puffy nipples | 13 |
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| Language | Translations for "puffy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mufatur, i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, highfaluting, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, orotund, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, sounding, swollen, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), gulçues (gasping, panting). (various references) | |
Arabic | منتفخ (baggy, bloat, bloated, blown, bulging, bulgy, distended, full, inflated, overblown, puffed, swelling, swollen), متعجرف (arrogant, cavalier, conceited, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, puffed up, stuffy, supercilious, swelling), لهاث (gasp, pant), سمين (beefy, corpulent, fat, fleshy, obese, plump, portly, pulpy, ripe, stout), طنان (bombastic, fustian, grandiloquent, orotund, pompous, resonant, rotund, runic, sonorous, sounding, stilted, tall, tumid, turgid, windy), رنان (metallic, orotund, pompous, pretentious, resonant, ringing, sonorous, sounding, swelling, vibrant), بدين (beefy, chubby, corpulent, fatty, fleshy, hefty, obese, overblown, overweight, plump, portly, replete, rotund, squabby, stout, tubby). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стремителен (brash, headlong, heady, impetuous, slashing, soaring, tearaway, torrential, vehement), страдащ от задух, внезапен (abrupt, jerky, precipitate, snap, steep, sudden, surprise, swift, unexpected), отекъл (swollen, tumid), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity), задъхан (blown, breathless, laboring, labouring, out of puff, puffed, scant of breath, winded), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), бомбастичен (high-flown, mandarin, mouth-filling, mouthy, pompous, sounding, spread eagle, tumid, turgid), подут (bloated, bulbous, gibbous, gummy, puffed up, swollen, tumid, turgid), подпухнал (bloated, dropsical, puffed up, sodden, swollen, turgid), дебел (ample, corpulent, dense, fat, obese, porky, pursy, stout, thick). (various references) | |
Czech | nafouklý (bloated), nabubřelý (gassy, highfaluting, pompous, stilted, turgid). (various references) | |
Danish | lagdelte hjernekalcifikationer (flaky appearance of brain, puffy appearance of brain). (various references) | |
Farsi | پف کردن (Puff), بادکرده (Baggy, Billowy, Bouffant, Protuberant, Turgid), باددار (Bloat, Blowy). (various references) | |
Finnish | pöyheä (fluffy), pöhöttynyt (swollen). (various references) | |
French | rebondi, gonflé (puffed), enflé (puffed up), boursouflé (puffed up), bouffi. (various references) | |
German | verschwollen (swollen), verquollen, geschwollen (billowed, bombastic, chesty, inflated, overblown, pompous, puffed, sententiously, swollen, thick, tumid, tumidly, turgid, turgidly), gedunsen (bloated), böig (bumpy, gusty, squally), aufgequollen (bloated, swollen), aufgedunsen (bloated, swollen), angeschwollen (swollen). (various references) | |
Greek | φυσιών (puffer), φουσκωμένοσ (flatulent, huffy, tumid), ασθματικόσ (asthmatic, pursy, wheezy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קצר נשימה (out of breath, out of puff, short winded, winded), נפוח (distending, exaggeration, inflated, inflation, puffing, swollen, tumid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | puffadt (flown, gummy, puffed up, puffed-up), kifulladt (blown, breathless, scant of breath, to be out of breath, to be winded, winded), dagadt (bloated, chuff, chuffed, embossed, fat, flown, gummy, lardass, swollen, turgid), kövér (adipose, as fat as a pig, beefy, bold, corpulent, fat, gross, have plenty of beef, loamy, lumping, overweight, plump, podgy, pudgy, thick). (various references) | |
Italian | paffuto (chubby, plump, round), gonfio (baggy, flown, inflated, swollen), ansante (breathless, gasping, wheezy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 脹れぼったい (somewhat swollen), 一息 (a breath, a pause, an effort). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひといき (a breath, a pause, an effort), はれぼったい (somewhat swollen). (various references) | |
Manx | sheebagh, puissagh (buccal, chubby, plump-cheeked, pouting, puffed out, sullen), bolgagh (abdominal, bellied, billowy, blister, bog, bulging, moss, variola), ass ennal (blown, breathless, puffed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uffypay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem fôlego (breathless, puffed, short-winded), ofegante (purse, pursy), esbaforido (blown, breathless, puffed), de respiração curta, de fôlego curto (purse, pursy), às rajadas, às lufadas. (various references) | |
Romanian | pretenţios (affected, cavilling, choosey, exacting, exigent, fastidious, finical, important, inkhorn, particular, pretentious, prim, sophomoric), plin de sine (bumptious, consequential, fatuous, pompous, portentous, self-conceited, self-important), umflat (baggy, bloated, blubber, bombastic, bulging, dropsical, flush, gummy, high-flown, inflated, long, swollen, tumid, turgid), gras (beefy, corpulent, fat, fatty, greasy, handsomely, oily, porky, pursy, rich, rotund, sticky, stout, unctuous, well fed), durduliu (buxom, chubby, plump, podgy), cu respiraţie greoaie, care gâfâie (puffed), bombastic (baggy, bombastic, bombastically, declamatory, emphatic, exaggerative, flamboyant, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-blown, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, plethoric, rotund, stilted, turgid), în rafale. (various references) | |
Russian | одутловатый (doughy, pasty, pasty faced), надутый (distent, inflated, mumpish, sulky), запыхавшийся (blown, breathless, puffed, winded). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podbuo (swollen), vazdušast (aeriform, airy, imaginary, light, unreal). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin aliento (breathless, puffed), hinchado (billowy, bloated, blown, bulging, cocksy, cocky, inflated, puffed, stilted, swollen), ahuecado (hollow). (various references) | |
Swedish | pussig (bloated), uppsvälld (bloated, swollen, turgescent), svullen (swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid), byig (gusty, squally), andfådd (breathless, out of puff, pursy, short winded, winded). (various references) | |
Turkish | püfür püfür esen, tantanalı (grandiose, orotund, pompous, rotund, showy, sonorous, sounding), tıknefes (pursy, short of breath, short winded), rüzgârlı (bleak, blowy, breezy, gusty, windswept, windy), kabarık (bagging, balloon, bloated, bunchy, fluffy, hipped, raised, shaggy, swelling, swollen, tumid), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), görkemli (brave, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, gallant, gorgeous, grandiose, imperial, magnificent, majestic, olympian, palatial, pompous, proud, queenlike, queenly, refulgent, splendid, stately, sublime, sumptuous), esintili (breezy), şişmiş (bloated, blown, blown up, inflated, puffed, swelled, swollen, tumid, turgid), şişkin (bagging, bulging, fat, gross, puffed up, swollen, tumid, turgescent), şişirilmiş (blown up, exaggerated, fustian, inflated, pompous, puffed up, swelling, turgescent), abartılı (dithyrambic, exaggerated, fond, fustian, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, inflated, magniloquent, ornate, overdone, slobbery, spread eagle, stagey, stagy, steep, swelling, tall, theatrical, turgescent, turgid, well-rounded), üfleyen (puffer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гонористий (conceited), одутлий (doughy), набряклий (bulging, hydropic), захеканий (blown, puffed, short winded, winded), поривчастий (brash, catchy, choppy, fretful, squally), пишномовний (altisonant, baggy, declamatory, exaggerative, gorgeous, grandiloquent, heroic, magniloquent, mannered, opulent, ornate, orotund, ossianic, rhetorical, stilted, turgid), пишний (magnificent, opulent, overblown). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | húp lên béo phị. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Puffy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: guffy, muffy, Palffy, Palffys, peffy, pff, Pfui, pifey, Piff, Piffa, piffie, piffy, poff, pruff, puf, puffe, puffey, puffie, puft, ruffy, ufby. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puffy" (pronounced pu"fē) |
| 3 | -u" f ē | Buffy, fluffy, huffy, scruffy, stuffy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-f-p-u-y" | |
-1 letter: puff. | |
-2 letters: yup. | |
-3 letters: up. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-f-p-u-y" | |
+2 letters: puffery, puffily. | |
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