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Meaning of puffy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  puffy
      adj 1: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a
             bouffant skirt" [syn: {bouffant}, {puffy}]
      2: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
         children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended
         stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen
         hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn:
         {puffy}, {intumescent}, {tumescent}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
      3: blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-
         shore winds"; "gusty winds " [syn: {gusty}, {puffy}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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