To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
To blow as an expression of scorn.
To pant.
To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
A powder puff.
A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
A puffball.
A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
Synonym of poof: a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
The drug cannabis.
A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
To utter in or with the throat.
to throat threats
To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
A narrow opening in a vessel.
The front part of the neck.
Station throat.
The inside of a timber knee.
The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
The gullet or windpipe.