1. An act of forcible exhalation
   "His huffing and puffing showed how out of shape he was";
   - huffing, snorting
    
2. Blowing tobacco smoke out into the air
   "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"

1. Blow hard and loudly
   "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain";
   - huff, chuff
    
2. Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
   "The runners reached the finish line, puffing heavily";
   - pant, gasp, heave
    
3. Smoke and exhale strongly
   "puff a cigar";
   - whiff
    
4. Inhale smoke from a cigarette, pipe, etc.
   "He puffd on his cigarette";
   - drag, draw
    
5. To swell or cause to enlarge
   "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests";
   - puff up, blow up, puff out
    
6. Expand abnormally
   "the mole was puffing up";
   - swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
    
7. Praise extravagantly
   "The critics puffed up this Broadway production";
   - puff up
    
8. Make proud or conceited
   "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
    
9. Speak in a blustering or scornful manner
   "A puffing kind of man"

Derived forms: puffings

Type of: blow, bluster, boast, brag, breathe in, breathing out, elate, exhalation, expand, expiration, gas [informal], gasconade [archaic], inhale, inspire, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, praise, shoot a line [informal], skite [Austral, NZ, informal], smoke, smoking, swash [archaic], uplift, vaunt

Encyclopedia: Puffing