Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To throw out smoke or fine dust in quick whiffs, as by igniting gunpowder or throwing out hair-powder from a puffball.
- noun A puff of smoke or dust, as from gunpowder or hair-powder.
- noun An instrument used in powdering the hair, made like a sort of bellows, by which the powder was blown in a cloud. Also
powder-puff . - noun In botany, a Scotch name for a species of puffball, Bovista lycoperdon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Scot. To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.
- noun Scot. A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder.
- noun Scot. A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland A
puff ofsmoke ordust - noun Scotland A
hairdresser 'spowder puff - noun Scotland The act of using a powder puff
- verb To
dust or topuff withsmoke
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Examples
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The scent of jasmine filled the air, spiced with a tang of sea salt and the sticky marsh ooze the locals called pluff mud'the unique smell of the Lowcountry that she'd grown to love after only a few days.
Forbidden Enchantment Bruhns, Nina 2007
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In an age of cable-television political celebrity, the 41-year-old Mr. Plouffe, pronounced "pluff," wants none of it.
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This is just to pluff his resume a little and make it less of a lie when he describes how he understands the needs and expecatations of our troops and Iraqi's – NOT. prairieguy
McCain says Obama's Iraq trip would convince him of success 2008
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Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato describes the sound of a jaboticaba kiss as “plock, pluff, pituy.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Suxem upp wivva vaktume thingy adn skwirts into craniam , plops rezt ob branes onna top, piks owt mosta bits uv pluff..
oops ur not antalope - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato describes the sound of a jaboticaba kiss as “plock, pluff, pituy.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato describes the sound of a jaboticaba kiss as “plock, pluff, pituy.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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That our language has only five vowels, which have to do duty for more than a score of sounds, is a grave fault; and the unhappy French preacher who, from an English pulpit, pronounced "plough" as "pluff" had much excuse.
Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888
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"What's that?" says the Pope, quite mollified, and sitting down again at the table that he had ris from in the first pluff of his indignation.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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De'il a hait was in the one pistol but a pluff of powder; and in the other, a cartridge-paper, full of blood, was rammed down upon the charge; the which, hitting Magneezhy on the ee-bree, had caused a business that seemed to have put him out of life, and nearly put me (though one of the volunteers) out of my seven senses.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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