puff definition

1. a short light gust of air
2. a light inflated pastry or puff shell
3. exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
4. a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
• examples: he took a puff on his pipe
• examples: he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly
5. smoke and exhale strongly
• examples: puff a cigar
• examples: whiff a pipe
6. suck in or take (air)
• examples: draw a deep breath
• examples: draw on a cigarette
7. make proud or conceited
• examples: The sudden fame puffed her ego
8. praise extravagantly
• examples: The critics puffed up this Broadway production
9. speak in a blustering or scornful manner
• examples: A puffing kind of man
10. to swell or cause to enlarge,
• examples: Her faced puffed up from the drugs
• examples: puffed out chests
11. blow hard and loudly
• examples: he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain
12. gathered for protruding fullness
• examples: puff sleeves