PUFFED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does puffed mean? 

• PUFFED (adjective)
  The adjective PUFFED has 1 sense:

1. gathered for protruding fullness

  Familiarity information: PUFFED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUFFED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gathered for protruding fullness

Synonyms:

puff; puffed

Context example:

puff sleeves

Similar:

fancy (not plain; decorative or ornamented)

 Context examples 

He turned and stared at Martin, and Martin, staring back, noted the puffed and discolored face, handsome and weak, and knew that he had been making a night of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He swelled and puffed in his anger.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He had swung round his revolving chair so as to face me, and he sat all puffed out like an enormous bull-frog, his head laid back and his eyes half-covered by supercilious lids.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wind puffed strongly, and the Ghost heeled far over, burying her lee rail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the inside pocket of his greatcoat.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Sausage’s piercing trajectory meant that the Milky Way’s disk was probably puffed up or even fractured following the impact, and the Milky Way had to re-grow a new disk.

(The Gaia Sausage: the major collision that changed the Milky Way, University of Cambridge)

Alleyne had known every brother well, but this was a face which was new to him—a face which was very red and puffed, working this way and that, as though the man were sore perplexed in his mind.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He ceased, puffed at the pipe, found that it was out, and passed it over to Zilla, who took the sneer at the white man off her lips in order to pucker them about the pipe-stem.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

How lonely it is, wife, said he, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke, for you and me to sit here by ourselves, without any children to play about and amuse us while other people seem so happy and merry with their children!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)