Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To throw out smoke or fine dust in quick whiffs, as by igniting gunpowder or throwing out hair-powder from a puffball.
- n. A puff of smoke or dust, as from gunpowder or hair-powder.
- n. An instrument used in powdering the hair, made like a sort of bellows, by which the powder was blown in a cloud. Also powder-puff.
- n. In botany, a Scotch name for a species of puffball, Bovista lycoperdon.
Wiktionary
- n. Scotland A puff of smoke or dust
- n. Scotland A hairdresser's powder puff
- n. Scotland The act of using a powder puff
- v. To dust or to puff with smoke
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Scot. To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.
- n. Scot. A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder.
- n. Scot. A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it.
Examples
“The scent of jasmine filled the air, spiced with a tang of sea salt and the sticky marsh ooze the locals called pluff mud'the unique smell of the Lowcountry that she'd grown to love after only a few days.”
“In an age of cable-television political celebrity, the 41-year-old Mr. Plouffe, pronounced "pluff," wants none of it.”
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“This is just to pluff his resume a little and make it less of a lie when he describes how he understands the needs and expecatations of our troops and Iraqi's – NOT. prairieguy”
“Suxem upp wivva vaktume thingy adn skwirts into craniam , plops rezt ob branes onna top, piks owt mosta bits uv pluff..”
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“Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato describes the sound of a jaboticaba kiss as “plock, pluff, pituy.””
“That our language has only five vowels, which have to do duty for more than a score of sounds, is a grave fault; and the unhappy French preacher who, from an English pulpit, pronounced "plough" as "pluff" had much excuse.”
“What's that?" says the Pope, quite mollified, and sitting down again at the table that he had ris from in the first pluff of his indignation.”
“De'il a hait was in the one pistol but a pluff of powder; and in the other, a cartridge-paper, full of blood, was rammed down upon the charge; the which, hitting Magneezhy on the ee-bree, had caused a business that seemed to have put him out of life, and nearly put me (though one of the volunteers) out of my seven senses.”
“He's as Lowcountry as pluff mud, with no fancy degrees.”
“John David Rose, David Anderson and John Gettys Smith, who somehow tricked the world into thinking Charles Fraser walked alligators on a leash in his land of magic pluff mud.”
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