puffing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: puffing	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for puffing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
puffing n blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing" an act of forcible exhalation Synonym(s): puffing, huffing, snorting
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Puff \Puff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Puffed} (p[ucr]ft); p. pr. & vb. n. {Puffing}.] [Akin to G. puffen to pop, buffet, puff, D. poffen to pop, puffen to blow, Sw. puffa to push, to cuff, Dan. puffe to pop, thump. See {Puff}, n.] 1. To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs. 2. To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at. It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation. --South. 3. To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion. The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the chase. --L' Estrange. 4. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated. --Boyle. 5. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance. Then came brave Glory puffing by. --Herbert.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Puffing \Puff"ing\, a. & n. from {Puff}, v. i. & t. {Puffing adder}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Puff adder} (b), under {Puff}. {Puffing pig} (Zo[94]l.), the common porpoise.