puffy adj

1 being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt" [syn: bouffant]

2 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" [syn: bloated, distended, puffed, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid]

3 breathing heavily [syn: huffing, puffing] [also: puffiest, puffier]

English

Etymology

puff + -y

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to puffs or puffiness; variously, being pillow-like, exhibiting swelling, or pertaining to the quality of one's breath or voice.

Derived terms

• foofy
• poofy

Translations

• French: boursouflé

Puffy can refer to one of the following:

• Puffy or Puffy AmiYumi (as they are known in the United States), a Japanese J-Pop duo
  • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, animation series about fictional adventures of Puffy AmiYumi
  • Puffy: P.S. I Love You, 1999 PlayStation game featuring Puffy AmiYumi
  • Puffy de Rumba, a single by Puffy AmiYumi
• Puffy, a former nickname of Sean "Diddy" Combs, American record producer, music industry executive, and part-time performing artist
• Puffy (mascot), the mascot of the free operating system OpenBSD
• Puffy, a nickname of Mike Bordin, an American former drummer from the rock band Faith No More
• Puffy, a nickname of Jeff Dubay, a Minnesota sports talk radio personality on the radio station, KFAN
• Puffy planet, a class of gas giant planets that have a low density

See also

• Puff

adipose, aeolian, airish, airy, arrogant, beefy, big-bellied, blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blowzy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boreal, bosomy, brawny, breezy, brisk, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, dilated, distended, drafty, dropsical, dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, favonian, flatulent, flawy, fleshy, fresh, full, gassy, gross, gusty, heavyset, hefty, hippy, important, imposing, incrassate, inflated, lusty, magisterial, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plethoric, plump, podgy, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffed up, pursy, roly-poly, rotund, self-important, squally, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffy, swelled, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, well-fed, windy