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PUFFY
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Irregular inflected forms: puffier , puffiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts
Example:
gusty winds
Synonyms:
gusty; puffy
Classified under:
Similar:
stormy ((especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion)
Derivation:
puff (a short light gust of air)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
Example:
puffy tumid flesh
Synonyms:
intumescent; puffy; tumescent; tumid; turgid
Classified under:
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Derivation:
puffiness (an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
Example:
a bouffant skirt
Synonyms:
bouffant; puffy
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Context examples:
In the new study, Hubble reveals that at least three of the TRAPPIST-1 planets — d, e, and f — do not seem to contain puffy, hydrogen-rich atmospheres like the gas giants of our own solar system.
(New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres, NASA)
I am taken home in a sad plight, and I have beef-steaks put to my eyes, and am rubbed with vinegar and brandy, and find a great puffy place bursting out on my upper lip, which swells immoderately.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Some of the most common body parts people want to improve through surgery include: • Breasts: Increase or reduce the size of breasts or reshape sagging breasts • Ears: Reduce the size of large ears or set protruding ears back closer to the head • Eyes: Correct drooping upper eyelids or remove puffy bags below the eyes • Face: Remove facial wrinkles, creases or acne scars • Hair: Fill in balding areas with one's own hair • Nose: Change the shape of the nose • Tummy: Flatten the abdomen
(Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, NIH)
Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength: if no one can be found willing to burden her or himself with such a fat, weak, puffy, useless thing, you cry out that you are ill-treated, neglected, miserable.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Vell, then, ven Bob was put up opposite this great Eytalian man I says ‘Slap ’im in the vind, Bob,’ ’cos I could see vid ’alf an eye that he vas as puffy as a cheesecake; so Bob he goes in, and as he comes the vorriner let ’im ’ave it amazin’ on the conk.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, they found that Kepler-51 d was slightly less massive (or the planet was even more puffy) than previously thought.
('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)
The recent Hubble observations allowed a team of astronomers to refine the mass and size estimates for these worlds — independently confirming their "puffy" nature.
('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)
