Puffy
['pʌfɪ] or ['pʌfi]
Definition
(adj.) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; 'hungry children with bloated stomachs'; 'he had a grossly distended stomach'; 'eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids'; 'swollen hands'; 'tumescent tissue'; 'puffy tumid flesh' .
Typed by Geoffrey--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.
(a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
Checker: Noelle
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Swelled, swollen, tumid.[2]. Bombastic, inflated, extravagant, turgid, tumid, pompous.
Edited by Leopold
Examples
- That is true, the puffy-eyed man said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- All this, instead of being as you now are, dependent on the mere caprice of Puffy! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If you could have heard her, the puffy-eyed man said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The third, a Jeune Mère, hanging disconsolate over a clayey and puffy baby with a face like an unwholesome full moon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Two tears, the parched tears of the old, rolled down her puffy cheeks and vanished in the abysses of her bosom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The puffy-faced young man rose, and drawing a chair close to Mr. Pickwick in an obscure corner of the room, listened attentively to his tale of woe. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Not even by a cynic like you, the puffy-eyed man said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was for ever making eyes at me--a coarse, puffy-faced, red-moustached young man, with his hair plastered down on each side of his forehead. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Ramsden, a stout, puffy gentleman, as large in person as he was in property, held aloof from the consequent commotion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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