puff
adj : gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves" [syn: {puffed}]
n 1: a short light gust of air [syn: {puff of air}, {whiff}]
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 [syn: {quilt}, {comforter}]
5: a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for
applying powder to the skin [syn: {powderpuff}]
6: thick cushion used as a seat [syn: {ottoman}, {pouf}, {pouffe},
{hassock}]
7: 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" [syn: {drag}, {pull}]
8: forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his
nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a
single puff" [syn: {blow}]
v 1: smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"
[syn: {whiff}]
2: suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a
cigarette" [syn: {drag}, {draw}]
3: breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners
reached the finish line, panting heavily" [syn: {pant}, {gasp},
{heave}]
4: make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
5: praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway
production" [syn: {puff up}]
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" [syn: {puff up}, {blow up}, {puff out}]
8: blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his
way up the mountain" [syn: {huff}, {chuff}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0
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: The Jargon File
