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: intumescent , tumescent , tumid , turgid ]

  3. blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; puffy off-shore winds; gusty winds

    [ Syn: gusty ]

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