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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