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- [puhf-ee]
- /ˈpʌf i/
- /ˈpʌf.i/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [puhf-ee]
- /ˈpʌf i/
Definitions of puffy word
- adjective puffy gusty1 . 1
- adjective puffy short-winded; panting. 1
- adjective puffy inflated, distended, or swollen. 1
- adjective puffy fat; plump. 1
- adjective puffy conceited. 1
- adjective puffy bombastic. 1
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Origin of puffy
First appearance:
before 1590 One of the 37% oldest English words
First recorded in 1590-1600; puff + -y1
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Puffy
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
puffy popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 79% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
puffy usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for puffy
adj puffy
- billowy — full of or forming billows
- bulgy — having a bulge or bulges
- distended — increased, as in size, volume, etc.; expanded; dilated: the distended nostrils of the terrified horse.
- distent — distended.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
noun puffy
- bunion — A bunion is a large painful lump on the first joint of a person's big toe.
- corn — Corn is used to refer to crops such as wheat and barley. It can also be used to refer to the seeds from these plants.
- distension — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- intensification — to make intense or more intense.
adjective puffy
- expanded — Being or having been enlarged, extended, or broadened, in particular.
- humourless — (British spelling, Canadian) alternative spelling of humorless.
Antonyms for puffy
noun puffy
- compression — the act of compressing or the condition of being compressed
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