Definition of puffing

"puffing" in the noun sense

1. puffing

blowing tobacco smoke out into the air

"they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"

2. puffing, huffing, snorting

an act of forcible exhalation

"puffing" in the verb sense

1. puff, whiff

smoke and exhale strongly

"puff a cigar"

"whiff a pipe"

2. puff, drag, draw

suck in or take (air

"draw a deep breath"

"draw on a cigarette"

3. pant, puff, gasp, heave

breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

"The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

4. puff

make proud or conceited

"The sudden fame puffed her ego"

5. puff, puff up

praise extravagantly

"The critics puffed up this Broadway production"

6. puff

speak in a blustering or scornful manner

"A puffing kind of man"

7. puff, puff up, blow up, puff out

to swell or cause to enlarge

"Her faced puffed up from the drugs"

"puffed out chests"

8. puff, huff, chuff

blow hard and loudly

"he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"

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Quotations for puffing

To elevate and surprise is the great art of quackery and puffing; to raise a lively and exaggerated image in the mind, and take it by surprise before it can recover breath. [ Hazlitt ]

puffing in Scrabble®

The word puffing is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters puffing:

PUFFING
(114 = 64 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word puffing

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In puffing

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puffing in Words With Friends™

The word puffing is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 20

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters puffing:

PUFFING
(143 = 108 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

puffing

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word puffing

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In puffing

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(143 = 108 + 35)
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Words within the letters of puffing

2 letter words in puffing (6 words)

3 letter words in puffing (11 words)

4 letter words in puffing (3 words)

5 letter words in puffing (1 word)

6 letter words in puffing (1 word)

7 letter words in puffing (1 word)

puffing + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence puffing

Words that start with puffing (1 word)

Words with puffing in them (1 word)

Words that end with puffing (1 word)

Word Growth involving puffing

Shorter words in puffing

in fin puffin

puff puffin

Longer words containing puffing

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