Definizione monolingua

puff

puff (third-person singular simple present puffs, present participle puffing, simple past and past participle puffed)

1. (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
2. (intransitive) To pant.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

     We ran for the better part of a mile without hearing anything more from the direction of the harbor, and then I reduced the speed to a walk, for the exercise was telling on us who had been cooped up for so long in the confined interior of the U-33. Puffing and panting, we plodded on until within about a mile of the harbor we came upon a sight that brought us all up standing.

3. (transitive, archaic) To advertise

puff (countable and uncountable; plural puffs)

1. (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
2. (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.

   out of puff

3. (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.

   puff of smoke

   puff of wind

4. (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
5. (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement about an objects quality.
   • 1842, ""A Paper on Puffing"", in Ainsworths Magazine

     Is nothing to be said in praise of the ""Emporiums"" and ""Repositories"" and ""Divans,"" which formerly were mere insignificant tailors, toymens, and tobacconists shops? Is the transition from the barbers pole to the revolving bust of the perruquier, nothing? — the leap from the bare counter-traversed shop to the carpeted and mirrored saloon of trade, nothing? Arc they not, one and all, practical puffs, intended to invest commerce with elegance, and to throw a halo round extravagance?

   • 1848, Mrs. White, ""Puffs and Puffing"", in Sharpes London Magazine

     Here the duke is made the vehicle of the tailors advertisement, and the prelusive compliments, ostensibly meant for his grace, merge into a covert recommendation of the coat. Several specimens might be given of this species of puff, which is to be met with in almost every paper, and is a favourite form with booksellers, professional men, &e.

   • 2008, David Paton-Williamspage, Katterfelto, page xii

     He was the eighteenth century king of spin, or, in the language of the day, the ""prince of puff"".

6. (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
7. (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.

   cream puff

8. (derogatory, slang, UK, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof
9. (slang, dated) life
   • 1938, P. G. Wodehouse (Bertie Wooster speaking of Spode) in The Code of the Woosters

     Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?

Definizione dizionario puff

	sbuffo
	sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth
	small quantity of gas or smoke in the air

	bignè
	type of cake

	soffio
	small quantity of gas or smoke in the air

	boccata
	informal: act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe

	bombolone
	type of cake

	decantare
	to advertise

	fiato
	ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself

	incensare
	to advertise

	pasta sfoglia
	type of cake

	refolo
	small quantity of gas or smoke in the air

	respiro
	ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself

	spinello
	slang: cannabis

	uscire a sbuffi
	to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs

alito

ansimare

checca

frocio

fumare

omosessuale

sbuffare

soffiare

Altri significati:

(countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.

(slang, dated) life

(countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement about an object's quality.

(uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.

(intransitive) To pant.

smoke (e.g. a pipe)

(transitive, archaic) To advertise

(countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.

(countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.

(a) dose

(informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.

(uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.

(derogatory, slang, UK, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof

(intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.