Overview of noun puffing

The noun puffing has 2 senses

• puffing -- (blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing")


• puffing, huffing, snorting -- (an act of forcible exhalation)

Overview of verb puff

The verb puff has 8 senses

• puff, whiff -- (smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe")


• puff, drag, draw -- (suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette")


• pant, puff, gasp, heave -- (breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily")


• puff -- (make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego")


• puff, puff up -- (praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production")


• puff -- (speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man")


• puff, puff up, blow up, puff out -- (to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests")


• puff, huff, chuff -- (blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain")