Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of breathing out or puffing; a puff, as of wind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of filling with
wind ; a breathing or puffing out.
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This windbag's bloviations are just Old-Style New Age efflation, spoken in the private language of a crank.
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