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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
  2. (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
  3. (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
  4. (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
  5. (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement about an object's quality.
  6. (dated, slang) A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; an act or scam of that type.
  7. A puffball.
  8. A powder puff.
  9. (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
  10. (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
  11. (derogatory, slang, British, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof

Verbit

  1. (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
  2. (intransitive) To pant.
  3. (transitive, archaic) To advertise.
  4. To blow as an expression of scorn.
  5. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
  6. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
  7. To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
  8. To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
  9. To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
  10. To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
  11. To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.

Esimerkit

  • Puffing and panting, we plodded on until within about a mile of the harbor we came upon a sight that brought us all up standing.
  • puffed with wonderful skill
  • puffed up with military success
  • the sea puffed up with winds
  • a bladder puffed with air
  • I puff the prostitute away.
  • The clearing north will puff the clouds away.
  • Then came brave Glory puffing by.
  • It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.
  • out of puff
  • The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the chase.
  • Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?
  • cream puff
  • He was the eighteenth century king of spin, or, in the language of the day, the "prince of puff".
  • Here the duke is made the vehicle of the tailor's advertisement, and the prelusive compliments, ostensibly meant for his grace, merge into a covert recommendation of the coat. Several specimens might be given of this species of puff, which is to be met with in almost every paper, and is a favourite form with booksellers, professional men, &c.
  • Is nothing to be said in praise of the "Emporiums" and "Repositories" and "Divans," which formerly were mere insignificant tailors', toymen's, and tobacconists' shops? Is the transition from the barber's pole to the revolving bust of the perruquier, nothing? — the leap from the bare counter-traversed shop to the carpeted and mirrored saloon of trade, nothing? Are they not, one and all, practical puffs, intended to invest commerce with elegance, and to throw a halo round extravagance?
  • to every puff of wind a slave
  • puff of smoke

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektipuffed
Imperfektipuffed
Partisiipin preesenspuffing
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenspuffs
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenspuffeth (vanhahtava)

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