Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To puff.
- To puff; whiff.
- noun A puff; a whiff.
- noun The spitting of a cat.
- noun A burst of passion; a fume.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Prov. Eng. A Local, U. S. To puff.
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- verb dialect, intransitive To
puff .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It reached the Red Riding Hood actors sounding like: Bwaa bwa bwa, bwumf fuff fuuf.
Spa©e headz Jon Scieszka 2010
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Then he thinks about the funeral which he can't attend as he might be asked to say something, and you know, thawken uf hawf wif uh mowf fuff ov pubbuhs.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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He looked up at me, as if he were going to suggest the most insuperable obstacle to that, and asked, "Who fuff the light?"
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton
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And with that the man laughed too, and with the fuff of his laughter the candle went out.
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The rest of them -- well, mother, I've stood a good deal these seven days, '' Donald added, gulping down something between a ` ` fuff '' of wrath and a sob.
Twilight stories 1905
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There cam 'a clap o' wund, like a cat's fuff; oot gaed the can'le, the saughs skrieghed like folk; an 'Mr. Soulis keened that, live or die, this was the end o't.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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The causelessness of all this fuff stirred my own bile.
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If I had kissed her indeed (I thought), perhaps she would have taken it pretty well; and only because it had been written down, and with a spice of jocularity, up she must fuff in this ridiculous passion.
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Only I have put the Stimabile in a great fuff - purposely, that I might not have him dangling here in your absence.
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There cam 'a clap o' wund, like a cat's fuff; oot gaed the can'le, the saughs skrieghed like folk 'an' Mr. Soulis kenned that, live or die, this was the end o '' t.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
madmouth commented on the word fuff
And here I thought Hubert J. Farnsworth invented this one
August 26, 2010