Crossword-Solution: PUFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Puff | n. | A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff. |
| Puff | n. | Anything light and filled with air. |
| Puff | n. | A puffball. |
| Puff | n. | a kind of light pastry. |
| Puff | n. | A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder. |
| Puff | n. | An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal. |
| Puff | n. | To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs. |
| Puff | n. | To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at. |
| Puff | n. | To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion. |
| Puff | n. | To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated. |
| Puff | n. | To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance. |
| Puff | v. t. | To drive with a puff, or with puffs. |
| Puff | v. t. | To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously. |
| Puff | v. t. | To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air. |
| Puff | v. t. | To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up. |
| Puff | v. t. | To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly. |
| Puff | a. | Puffed up; vain. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PUFF (5)
Ever and anon, too, there came a glare of red light out of his eyes, as if the old man’s soul were on fire and kept on smouldering duskily within his breast, until by some casual puff of passion it was blown into a momentary flame.
All night long the Martians were hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon the machines they were making ready, and ever and again a puff of greenish-white smoke whirled up to the starlit sky.
They know by old experience that when they get hold of a presumption-tadpole he is not going to _stay_ tadpole in their history-tank; no, they know how to develop him into the giant four-legged bullfrog of _fact_, and make him sit up on his hams, and puff out his chin, and look important and insolent and come-to-stay; and assert his genuine simon-pure authenticity with a thundering bellow that will convince everybody because it is so loud.
Now they stretched themselves out on their elbows and began to puff, charily, and with slender confidence.
They had seen the puff of smoke from the tree following the shot that brought down the Arab, but, though a volley had immediately been loosed into its foliage, there had been no indication that it had been effective.
Quotes with PUFF (3)
Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,'" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.""But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves …
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 61 times in crossword archives (1956–2024).