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Definition: Puffed |
PuffedAdjective1. 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". 2. Gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puffed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: PuffedSynonyms: bloated (adj), distended (adj), puff (adj), puffy (adj), swollen (adj), tumescent (adj), tumid (adj), turgid (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pride | Haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride. |
Vanity | Adjective: vain, proud as a peacock; conceited, overweening, pert, forward; vainglorious, high-flown; ostentatious; puffed up, inflated, flushed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Puffed |
| English words defined with "puffed": Astrut ♦ Bepuffed, bloated, blow up, Bollen, bouffant ♦ California false morel, Chuffy ♦ distended ♦ grandiloquent, Gyromitra californica, Gyromitra sphaerospora ♦ overblown ♦ pompous, pontifical, portentous, pouter, pouter pigeon, Pubble, puff, puff out, puff up, puffy ♦ round-spored gyromitra ♦ swollen ♦ trunk hose, tumescent, tumid, turgid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puffed": Blow-point ♦ cereal popper, COATING OPERATOR, corder, cording-machine operator ♦ graduate tucker ♦ pleater, Puffed Up ♦ ruching-machine operator ♦ TUCKING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | His chest is all puffed out like Raquel Walsh (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Lyrics | As he puffed his pipe and baby B (Good Company; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | He huffed -- and he puffed -- and --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He flapped his arms and puffed, he whirled until he was dizzy |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Bandeau tube dresses, hand-knitted dresses with embroidered flowers, bias-cutting, detachable straps and pockets, fluidity, multi-layered dresses, puffed sleeves. (references) | |
Asymmetric necklines, three-quarter length sleeves, fitted shirts as a jacket; puffed sleeves, drawstring tops as layering pieces, tube tops, funnel necks, and the layering of sheer cotton T-shirts, tunics. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Puffed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 71.52% of the time. "Puffed" is used about 158 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 71.52% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 17.09% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.76% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.63% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 158 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "puffed": be puffed up ♦ puffed eyes ♦ puffed out ♦ puffed portion ♦ puffed rice ♦ puffed sleeve ♦ puffed up ♦ puffed wheat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "puffed": puffed-up, puffed-up with pleasure, puffed-wood. | |
Ending with "puffed": huffed-and-puffed, much-puffed, puff-puffed, sleep-puffed. | |
| 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 |
cocoa puffed rice square | 38 |
puffed square wheat | 20 |
puffed wheat | 12 |
puffed | 7 |
puffed recipe square wheat | 7 |
puffed rice | 7 |
jet marshmallows puffed | 7 |
cake puffed wheat | 6 |
cake puffed recipe wheat | 5 |
puffed sleeve | 5 |
puffed recipe wheat | 4 |
puffed recipe rice | 3 |
puffed pussy | 3 |
puffed quaker wheat | 3 |
nipples puffed | 3 |
nipple puffed | 3 |
jet puffed | 2 |
puffed up | 2 |
pastry puffed recipe | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "puffed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pafrymë (breathless, exanimate, winded), 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 up, puffy, sounding, swollen, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Arabic | منفوخ (blown, inflated, inflationary, swollen), منتفخ (baggy, bloat, bloated, blown, bulging, bulgy, distended, full, inflated, overblown, puffy, swelling, swollen). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | задъхан (blown, breathless, laboring, labouring, out of puff, puffy, scant of breath, winded), буфан (pouf). (various references) | |
Chinese | 膀 (bladder, to flirt, upper arm, wing), 泡 (soak, swollen, to steep), 喘" (Gasped, gasping, Puffing). (various references) | |
Czech | nadutý (arrogant, bumptious, conceited, haughty, overbearing, proud, puffed up, windy). (various references) | |
Danish | puf-ris (popped rice, puffed rice corn), pop-ris (popped rice, puffed rice corn), skållav (dark crottle, puffed shield lichen), rib (cord, costal bones, plain rib, puffed portion, raised portion, rib, ventral bones, wing rib), opsvulmet stok (puffed up stipe, sagging socks), krokant med puf-ris (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch). (various references) | |
Dutch | gepofte-rijstnoga (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), gepofte rijstkorrel (popped rice, puffed rice corn), boomkorstmos (dark crottle, puffed shield lichen), afgezakte sokken (puffed up stipe, sagging socks). (various references) | |
Finnish | pullistunut jalka (puffed up stipe, sagging socks), röyhistää rintaansa (be puffed up). (various references) | |
French | haleté, gonflant, gonflé (puffy). (various references) | |
German | geschwollen (billowed, bombastic, chesty, inflated, overblown, pompous, puffy, sententiously, swollen, thick, tumid, tumidly, turgid, turgidly), außer puste, außer atem (breathless, breathlessly, out of breath). (various references) | |
Greek | λαχανιασμένοσ (breathless, short of breath). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תפוח (apple, ball, heap, pile, puffed out, swollen, tumid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felfújt (blown, chuff, chuffed, distended, exaggerated, inflated, overblown, pudding, puffed-up, soufflé). (various references) | |
Italian | peduncolo gonfiato (puffed up stipe, sagging socks), croccante al riso soffiato (popped rice brittle, puffed rice crunch), costa del tessuto (cord, puffed portion, raised portion, rib), chicco di riso soffiato (popped rice, puffed rice corn). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 胸'反らす (to be puffed up with pride, to throw out one's chest), 逆毛 (hair which is combed back or puffed up or teased), 威張り腐る (to be puffed up, to throw one's weight around). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さか' (hair which is combed back or puffed up or teased), いばりくさる (to be puffed up, to throw one's weight around), むね'そらす (to be puffed up with pride, to throw out one's chest). (various references) | |
Korean | 내뿜" (exhaled, flushed). (various references) | |
Manx | sheidit (blown, swollen), ass ennal (blown, breathless, puffy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uffedpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem fôlego (breathless, puffy, short-winded), esbaforido (blown, breathless, puffy), em balão, com tufos. (various references) | |
Romanian | care gâfâie (puffy), bufant (bouffant). (various references) | |
Russian | с буфами, запыхавшийся (blown, breathless, puffy, winded). (various references) | |
Scottish | tòic (a swelling, puffed up state of the face). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naduvan (aureate, hot air, inflated, orotund, puff up, puffed up). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin aliento (breathless, puffy), hinchado (billowy, bloated, blown, bulging, cocksy, cocky, inflated, puffy, stilted, swollen), henchido, de jamón, ampuloso (bombastic, plethoric). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppblåst (flatulent, inflated, pompous, puffed up, stuck up, swollen-headed, windy). (various references) | |
Turkish | soluğu kesilmiş (blown, blown up, out of breath, winded), nefes nefese kalmış (blown up), şişmiş (bloated, blown, blown up, inflated, puffy, swelled, swollen, tumid, turgid). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпухлий (gouty, proud), захеканий (blown, puffy, short winded, winded). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | WV mh ercomenou de mou proV umaV efusiwqhsan tineV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tamquam non venturus sim ad vos sic inflati sunt quidam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As thouy Y schulde not come to you, so summe ben blowun with pride; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Some swell as though I wolde come no more at you. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now some are full of pride, as if I was not coming to you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ang uban kaninyo diha nanagpaburot kaayo sa ilang kaugalingon, nga daw dili ako moanha diha kaninyo. |
| Chinese | 有 些 人 自 高 自 大 、 以 為 我 不 到 們 那 裡 去 。 |
| Croatian | Neki se uzniješe kao da ja neæu doæi k vama. |
| Danish | Men nogle ere blevne opblæste, i den Tanke, at jeg ikke kommer til eder; |
| Dutch | Doch sommigen zijn opgeblazen, alsof ik tot ulieden niet komen zou. |
| Finnish | Muutamat teistä ovat paisuneet pöyhkeiksi, aivan niinkuin minä en tulisikaan teidän tykönne. |
| French | Quelques-uns se sont enflés d`orgueil, comme si je ne devais pas aller chez vous. |
| German | Es blähen sich etliche auf, als würde ich nicht zu euch kommen. |
| Hungarian | De mintha el se mennék ti hozzátok, úgy felfuvalkodtak némelyek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Beberapa orang dari antaramu sudah menjadi sombong, sebab mereka menyangka saya tidak akan datang padamu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi adalah beberapa orang yang membesarkan dirinya seolah-olah tiada aku berani datang kepadamu. |
| Latvian | Daþi ir uzpûtuðies, it kâ es vairs nenâkðot pie jums. |
| Maori | Na ko etahi e whakapehapeha ana, e mea ana e kore ahau e haere atu ki a koutou. |
| Norwegian | Men somme er blitt opblåst, i den tanke at jeg ikke skulde komme til eder; |
| Portuguese | Mas alguns andam inchados, como se eu não houvesse de ir ter convosco. |
| Rumanian | Unii s`au kngkmfat, wi wi-au knchipuit cq n`am sq mai vin la voi. |
| Shuar | Papru yamaikia iraishtatui Enentáimturainiak Chíkich Chíkich nankaamantuitjai tu Enentáimtumainiawai. |
| Spanish | Pero algunos se han inflado de soberbia, como si yo nunca hubiera de ir a vosotros. |
| Swahili | Baadhi yenu wameanza kuwa na majivuno wakidhani kwamba sitakuja tena kwenu. |
| Swedish | Nu är det väl så, att somliga hava blivit uppblåsta, under förmenande att jag icke skulle komma till eder. |
| Uma | Ria-koi nte ba hangkuja dua to molangko nono-ni, ni'uli' uma-apa mpai' daho' tilou mpohirua' -kokoi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Puffed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: luffed, Paffard, piaffe, pifed, Piffa, piffed, piffee, pofed, Ppfe, pufed, puffas, puffe, Puffett, puffey, upfed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "puffed" (pronounced pu"ft) |
| 3 | -u" f t | bluffed, cuffed, fluffed, huffed, luffed, rebuffed, roughed, scuffed, snuffed, stuffed, toughed, tuft. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-f-p-u" | |
-2 letters: duff, dupe, feud, puff. | |
-3 letters: due, dup, eff, fed, feu, fud, ped, pud. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, ef, pe, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-f-p-u" | |
+1 letter: pouffed. | |
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