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puffing 音标拼音: [p'ʌfɪŋ] 晶胀现象; 扑气; 急喷出 晶胀现象; 扑气; 急喷出 puffing n 1: blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; " they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing" 2: an act of forcible exhalation [ synonym: { puffing}, { huffing}, { snorting}] Puff \ Puff\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Puffed} ( p[ u^] ft); p. pr. & vb. n. { Puffing}.] [ Akin to G. puffen to pop, buffet, puff, D. poffen to pop, puffen to blow, Sw. puffa to push, to cuff, Dan. puffe to pop, thump. See { Puff}, n.] 1. To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at. [ 1913 Webster] It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion. [ 1913 Webster] The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the chase. -- L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated. -- Boyle. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance. [ 1913 Webster] Then came brave Glory puffing by. -- Herbert. [ 1913 Webster]
Puffing \ Puff" ing\, a. & n. from { Puff}, v. i. & t. [ 1913 Webster] { Puffing adder}. ( Zool.) Same as { Puff adder} ( b), under { Puff}. { Puffing pig} ( Zool.), the common porpoise. [ 1913 Webster] 35 Moby Thesaurus words for " puffing": asthmatic, blurb, breathing, breathless, errhine, expiratory, heaving, huffing, inspiratory, nasal, out of breath, panting, plug, pneumonic, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiratory, rhinal, short- breathed, short- winded, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutatory, stertorous, wheezing, wheezy, winded, write- up
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