A short light gust of air.

synonyms: puff of air, whiff.

Roget 349: wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation^†, eluvium^†; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, breeze, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent.    gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon^†, simoom; harmattan^†, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise^†, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia^†, chinook, foehn, khamsin^†, norther, vendaval^†, wuther^†.    windiness etc. adj.; ventosity^†; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall.    anemography^†, aerodynamics; wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather-vane, wind sock; anemometer, anemoscope^†.    sufflation^†, insufflation^†, perflation^†, inflation, afflation^†; blowing, fanning etc. v.; ventilation.    sneezing etc. v.; errhine^†; sternutative^†, sternutatory^†; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath.    Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus.    air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah^†; branchiae^†, gills, flabellum^†, vertilabrum^†.    whiffle ball.    ... show more

Roget 549: exaggeration; expansion etc. 194; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura^†; extravagance etc. (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry [Slang].    storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482; puff, puffery etc. (boasting) 884; rant etc. (turgescence) 577^†.    figure of speech, facon de parler [Fr.]; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy etc. (imagination) 515.    false coloring etc. (falsehood) 544; aggravation etc. 835.    ... show more

Roget 546: untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle^†, whopper; jhuth^†.    forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation; perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi [Lat.]; exaggeration etc. 549.    invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance etc. (imagination) 515; absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake; claptrap.    press agent's yarn; puff, puffery (exaggeration) 549.    myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce.    irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation etc. (concealment) 528.    pretense, pretext; false plea etc. 617; subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe; sham etc. (deception) 545.    profession, empty words; Judas kiss etc. (hypocrisy) 544; disguise etc. (mask) 530.    ... show more

Roget 396: sweetness, dulcitude^†.    sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture^†, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup^†, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai^†, sorghum, taffy.    nectar; hydromel^†, mead, meade^†, metheglin^†, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif.    [sources of sugar] sugar cane, sugar beets.    [sweet foods] desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food) 298.    dulcification^†, dulcoration^†.    sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose; artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N Low.    ... show more

Roget 884: boasting etc. v.; boast, vaunt, crake^†; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade^†; gasconade; blague^†, bluff, gas [Slang]; highfalutin, highfaluting^†; hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]; brag, braggardism^†; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation^†, jactancy^†; bounce; venditation^†, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology^†, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration etc. 549.    vanity etc. 880; vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen [Lat.].    exultation; gloriation^†, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph etc. 883.    boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron^†, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller^†; blusterer etc. 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy etc. (fop) 854.    ... show more

Dutch: teug, adem, vleug, vlaag, zuchtje

A light inflated pastry or puff shell.

Dutch: soes

Exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes).

Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together.

synonyms: comfort, comforter, quilt.

Dutch: quilt, poederdons
Polish: kołdra

A soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin.

synonym: powderpuff.

Thick cushion used as a seat.

synonyms: hassock, ottoman, pouf, pouffe.

Dutch: poef
Polish: puf

A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke):
— He took a puff on his pipe.

synonyms: drag, pull.

Dutch: haal, hijs, trek

Forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth:
— He blew out all the candles with a single puff.

synonym: blow.

Smoke and exhale strongly:
— Puff a cigar.

synonym: whiff.

Roget 349: blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane etc. n.; wuther^†; stream, issue.    respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough.    fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate^†; blow up.    ... show more

Roget 933: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver^†, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly [U.S.]; bespatter, beslubber^†, beplaster^†, beslaver^†; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue^†; truckle to, pander to, pandar to^†, suck up to, kiss the ass of [Vulg.], pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one's bent; lick the dust.    lay the flattering unction to one's soul, gild the pill, make things pleasant.    overestimate etc. 482; exaggerate etc. 549.    ... show more

Roget 931: approve; approbate, think good, think much of, think well of, think highly of; esteem, value, prize; set great store by, set great store on.    do justice to, appreciate; honor, hold in esteem, look up to, admire; like etc. 897; be in favor of, wish Godspeed; hail, hail with satisfaction.    stand up for, stick up for; uphold, hold up, countenance, sanction; clap on the back, pat on the back; keep in countenance, indorse; give credit, recommend; mark with a white mark, mark with a stone.    commend, belaud^†, praise, laud, compliment; pay a tribute, bepraise^†; clap the hands; applaud, cheer, acclamate^†, encore; panegyrize^†, eulogize, cry up, proner [Fr.], puff; extol, extol to the skies; magnify, glorify, exalt, swell, make much of; flatter etc. 933; bless, give a blessing to; have a good word for, say a good word for; speak well of, speak highly of, speak in high terms of; sing the praises of, sound the praises of, chaunt the praises of; resound the praises of; sing praises to; cheer to the echo, applaud to the echo, applaud to the very echo, cheer to the very echo.    redound to the honor, redound to the praise, redound to the credit of; do credit to; deserve praise etc. n.; recommend itself; pass muster.    be praised &c.; receive honorable mention; be in favor with, be in high favor with; ring with the praises of, win golden opinions, gain credit, find favor with, stand well in the opinion of; laudari a laudato viro [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 549: exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify etc. (expand) 194; overestimate etc. 482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous.    out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random.    heighten, overcolor^†; color highly, color too highly; broder^†; flourish; color etc. (misrepresent) 544; puff etc. (boast) 884.    ... show more

Suck in or take (air).

synonyms: drag, draw.

Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted.

synonyms: gasp, heave, pant.

Roget 688: be fatigued etc. adj.; yawn etc. (get sleepy) 683; droop, sink, flag; lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb.    fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate.    tax, task, strain; overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax, overstrain.    ... show more

Make proud or conceited.

Praise extravagantly:
— The critics puffed up this Broadway production.

synonym: puff up.

Speak in a blustering or scornful manner.

To swell or cause to enlarge:
— Her faced puffed up from the drugs.
— Puffed out chests.

synonyms: blow up, puff out, puff up.

Roget 194: become larger etc. (large) etc. 192; expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate^†, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon [Fr.], shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun.    be larger than; surpass etc. (be superior) 33.    render larger etc. (large) etc. 192; expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.    ... show more

Blow hard and loudly:
— He huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain.

synonyms: chuff, huff.

Gathered for protruding fullness:
— Puff sleeves.

synonym: puffed.

Polish: bufiasty, pufiasty