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1. Blowing tobacco smoke out into the air
   "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"
    
2. An act of forcible exhalation
   - huffing, snorting

1. Smoke and exhale strongly
   "puff a cigar"
   - whiff
    
2. Suck in or take (air)
   - drag, draw
    
3. Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
   - pant, gasp, heave
    
4. Make proud or conceited
   "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
    
5. Praise extravagantly
   "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
   - 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"
   "puffed out chests"
   - puff up, blow up, puff out
    
8. Blow hard and loudly
   "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
   - huff, chuff

Derived forms: puffings

See also: puffer

Type of: blow, bluster, boast, brag, breathe in, breathing out, elate, exhalation, expiration, gas, gasconade [archaic], inhale, inspire, intoxicate, intumesce, lift up, pick up, praise, shoot a line, skite [Austral, NZ], smoke, smoking, swash, swell, swell up, tout, tumefy, tumesce, uplift, vaunt

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