Being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing.

synonym: bouffant.

Roget 192: large, big; great etc. (in quantity) 31; considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious etc. 180; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.    corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.    lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy etc. (swollen) 194.    huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite etc. 105.    large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.    immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed; inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of.    of cosmic proportions; of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.    ... show more

Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas:
— Eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids.
— Puffy tumid flesh.

synonyms: intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid.

Roget 194: expanded, etc. v.; larger, etc. (large) etc. 192; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform^†; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied^†; edematous, oedematous^†, obese, puffy, pursy^†, blowzy, bigswoln^†, distended; patulous; bulbous etc. (convex) 250; full blown, full grown, full formed; big etc. 192; abdominous^†, enchymatous^†, rhipidate^†; tumefacient^†, tumefying^†.    ... show more

Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts:
— Puffy off-shore winds.

synonym: gusty.