puffy

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  1. Swollen, as with air or some soft substance; puffed up; tumid; soft: as, a puffy tumor. A very stout puffy man in buckskins and Hessian boots. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, iii.
  2. Tumid; turgid; bombastic: as, a puffy style. He lives at a high sail, that the puffy praises of his neighbours may blow him into the enchanted island, vainglory. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 486. Nor [could] the tickling sense of applause and vaine-glory [make me stoop so low as] to affect the puffy name and title of an Orator. Dr. H. More, Immortal. of Soul, Ep. Ded. There is a man, … Better than you, or all your puffy race, That better would become the great battalion. Dryden, Duke of Guise, ii. 2.
  3. Coming in puffs; characterized by puffs; gusty. We were running wing and wing before a very fresh and puffy wind. The Century, XXVIII. 106.

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  • Their eyes are puffy, they have pillow marks on their faces…but the kids are ready to work.
  • The blue-black circles under his blue eyes were puffy, as if he had not been sleeping well. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
  • Her eyes were red and puffy, her nose the size of W. C. Fields's. —  Stephanie Bond - Irresistible
  • His reddish face was puffy, and coarse skin and deep lines almost obscured the natural regularity of his features. —  Police at the Funeral - Margery Allingham - Campion 04: 1931
  • Her eyelids looked bruised and puffy, and dark pouches had appeared under eyes whose grey irises swam in a background of red and white craquelure. —  Booked for Murder—McDermid, Val - Lindsay Gordon 05
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