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a short light gust of air smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe" a light inflated pastry or puff shell suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) pant: breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily" quilt: bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego" powderpuff: a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production" ottoman: thick cushion used as a seat speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man" a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly" to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" blow: forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff" blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain" gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"
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large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed hognose snake: harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed
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blowfish: delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
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blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing" an act of forcible exhalation
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Bitis arrietans, an extremely venomous, brightly colored, viperine snake found in Africa and Arabia; when annoyed it inflates its stubby body and hisses loudly.
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