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单词 puffy
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Definition of puffy in English:

puffy

adjectivepuffiest, puffier ˈpʌfiˈpəfi
  • 1(especially of part of the body) unusually swollen.

    (尤指身体部位)膨胀的;浮肿的

    her eyes were puffy and full of tears

    她双眼浮肿,噙满泪水。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My dark green eyes almost looked as if they were going to swell shut with how puffy and pink they'd become.
    • My eyes were swollen, red and puffy from crying so hard.
    • Her eyes were puffy and swollen, signaling that she had just spent the last ten minutes crying her heart out.
    • You have to poke them and watch their soft puffy bodies give away and bounce back, hypnotizing you into taking them home and daring you to eat them.
    • Most bodybuilders refer to water in the pejorative, fingering it as the cause for water retention or a puffy and bloated appearance.
    • It's weird, it almost feels puffy and swollen (but it doesn't look like it).
    • My arm muscles were cramped up and felt like they were made of lead, my eyes were swelling and my cheeks felt puffy and warm.
    • I noticed that her hands and feet were puffy and swollen.
    • Jenny's eyes were red and swollen and her cheeks were puffy.
    • It's appropriate if the site is puffy, swells quickly, and looks rosy red.
    • Looking at those puffy eyes and enlarged nostrils I decided not to fight back.
    • His once slender face, embedded in our hearts and minds from the extensive news coverage, was now puffy and swollen.
    • His left foot seemed a bit bigger, puffy and swollen.
    • His blond hair was disheveled and puffy bags bulged from beneath his eyes.
    • Her face was red and puffy and her body was shaking.
    • The skin becomes swollen and puffy, and pits on being pressed.
    • His eyes were red and swollen, his face puffy, and his nose running badly.
    • In some cases, it is retained in the body leading to a puffy appearance.
    • His right eye is swollen, puffy and seeping something murky.
    • Dan was a bloodied mess, his right eye already swelling shut, his lip puffy, split and bleeding.
    Synonyms
    swollen, puffed up, distended, enlarged, full, inflated, dilated, bloated, engorged, bulging, baggy
    rare tumid, turgescent, tumescent, tumefied, oedematous, ventricose
  • 2Soft, rounded, and light.

    松软的;圆形的;轻柔的

    small puffy clouds

    小片轻柔的云朵。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The small puffy cumulus cloud takes 10 minutes to form and 10 minutes to decay.
    • A further variation is found in the rich shortcrust used for the Russian coulibiac, which differs in being made with yeast, which makes it light and puffy.
    • Clouds, puffy and white, drifted lazily in the hot sky.
    • Small clusters of puffy white clouds drifted over the horizon lazily.
    • Her voice was light and soft as a puffy white cloud.
    • Outside the town, they had built a factory producing chemical fertilizers which sent at times huge puffy purple clouds over the surroundings.
    • While there were several white, puffy cumulus clouds in the area, they looked far from ominous, and I saw nothing to cause us concern.
    • The back even has puffy white clouds to signify sky, replacing the old standard of parallel arches and lending a greater degree of realism to the piece.
    • The sun was shining, the clouds were puffy, white and scattered, and it was very balmy.
    • The pastry was golden, light, puffy and good enough to be home-made, betraying none of the vegetable fat lardiness of bought-in catering stuff.
    • Instead of a light, puffy, cherry-studded pudding, the result was a nasty, pasty, cherry omelette that was scraped into the bin before anyone could see it.
    • They weren't storm clouds or anything, just pretty, puffy white clouds.
    • Like all the meals, the jerk comes with red peas (kidney beans) and rice, as well as plantains that are puffy, soft, and sweet like caramel.
    • Blue sky, soft, puffy clouds of white with the slightest hint of purple in them.
    • There were only a few light puffy clouds in the blue sky.
    • The high puffy clouds formed in the afternoon turning it into a connect-the-dots day.
    • Cream crackers, light and puffy sweets, are also popular.
    • The sky began to clear and there were puffy white clouds forming as the evening faded away.
    • The sun burned the mist away a couple of hours after dawn, and left us with a blue sky populated with the very best kind of puffy white cloud.
    • The sky was filled with all sorts of red and orange mixture and soon the sky was filled with puffy soft clouds and twinkling stars.
    1. 2.1 (of a garment) padded or gathered to give a rounded shape.
      (衣服等)内加衬垫或打褶裥而膨起的,打泡裥的
      a puffy blue ski-jacket

      膨起的蓝色滑雪衫。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Bouffant American ladies in puffy jackets laugh and talk loudly.
      • She was wearing a pair of dark green pants, and a deep pink puffy shirt with a black corset covering it.
      • Not many actors can sing, dance, wear a puffy shirt and do pratfalls while still looking macho.
      • But ‘marriage’ is not necessarily defined as frocking up in a white puffy gown and waltzing down the aisle.
      • Shoving his hands into the pockets of his tremendously puffy jacket, he heard crinkling and pulled out a slight crumpled piece of paper.
      • I had a white towel wrapped around my head, a white robe wrapped around my body and a black puffy Cinderella dress waiting for me by the closet.
      • But the fire at the start began fading before he was half way along, so it wasn't quite the spectacle it might have been, even though he was wearing a puffy shirt.
      • Plus, I think I could carry off the pirate look, puffy shirt and all.
      • They brushed out my puffy skirt and pushed me out the door.
      • The bottom half was a gigantic, puffy skirt that would probably be calf-length on anyone else, but would probably wind up being just below my knees.
      • It could be that my judgment has become impaired by all the puffy dresses and diamonds in these magazines.
      • She looked absolutely beautiful, and it was more than the usual overly styled hair and huge puffy dress that girls usually wore to the spring formal.
      • Snapping out of her trance, she stood up quickly and found herself staring at some stranger with spiked brownish hair and an extremely large puffy jacket.
      • They shuffled in carrying composition notebooks and wearing puffy jackets, tapered jeans, and Timberland boots.
      • Elaine would be wearing a floor-length, old-fashioned, pink silk gown, complete with puffy skirt à la Gone With the Wind.
      • You don't see me wearing any puffy dresses, do you?
      • My own dress was the daftest display of taffeta you'll ever see, something to do with the fact that they'd taken a puffy dress for a thinner girl and blown it up.
      • I dug out a white puffy jacket that always seemed to make me look twice the size I really am.
      • You'll never again have to wear three sweaters and a puffy jacket to look wide.
      • She replied, straightening out her own puffy dress.
  • 3(of wind or breath) coming in short bursts.

    喘息的

    his breath was puffy and fast

    他的呼吸又紧又急。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He got all puffy and started breathing hard again.
    • She was squinting in the sun, saying she'd warmed to that photogenic blue sky / puffy breath combo.

Derivatives

  • puffily

  • adverb
    • ‘Big thoughts of today's big thinkers’ is how they puffily describe it.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The dough, buoyed by the ridiculous quantity of yeast, practically exploded out of the bowl - billowing puffily upwards with what looked like almost unrestrained glee.
      • A diesel locomotive crawls puffily onto the track next to them, and every one of the seven instantly snaps to attention.
  • puffiness

  • noun ˈpʌfɪnəs
    • I applied lots of foundation to cover up the puffiness and redness around my eyes.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her youth and beauty are still just visible beneath her thickened, scarred lips and the alcoholic puffiness of her face.
      • To avoid morning eye or facial puffiness, sleep on your back so fluid doesn't collect there.
      • You could experience digestive problems, low energy, brain fog, high cholesterol, low blood pressure, pain in the muscles and joints, allergies, puffiness and swelling.
      • Signs that we're burning the candle at both ends often show up in and around the eyes as redness, puffiness and dark circles.

Rhymes

fluffy, huffy, roughie, roughy, scruffy, snuffy, stuffy, toughie

Definition of puffy in US English:

puffy

adjectiveˈpəfēˈpəfi
  • 1(especially of part of the body) unusually swollen and soft.

    (尤指身体部位)膨胀的;浮肿的

    her eyes were puffy and full of tears

    她双眼浮肿,噙满泪水。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You have to poke them and watch their soft puffy bodies give away and bounce back, hypnotizing you into taking them home and daring you to eat them.
    • In some cases, it is retained in the body leading to a puffy appearance.
    • Looking at those puffy eyes and enlarged nostrils I decided not to fight back.
    • My dark green eyes almost looked as if they were going to swell shut with how puffy and pink they'd become.
    • My eyes were swollen, red and puffy from crying so hard.
    • Her face was red and puffy and her body was shaking.
    • I noticed that her hands and feet were puffy and swollen.
    • His left foot seemed a bit bigger, puffy and swollen.
    • It's weird, it almost feels puffy and swollen (but it doesn't look like it).
    • Her eyes were puffy and swollen, signaling that she had just spent the last ten minutes crying her heart out.
    • His once slender face, embedded in our hearts and minds from the extensive news coverage, was now puffy and swollen.
    • My arm muscles were cramped up and felt like they were made of lead, my eyes were swelling and my cheeks felt puffy and warm.
    • It's appropriate if the site is puffy, swells quickly, and looks rosy red.
    • His eyes were red and swollen, his face puffy, and his nose running badly.
    • Most bodybuilders refer to water in the pejorative, fingering it as the cause for water retention or a puffy and bloated appearance.
    • The skin becomes swollen and puffy, and pits on being pressed.
    • Dan was a bloodied mess, his right eye already swelling shut, his lip puffy, split and bleeding.
    • His blond hair was disheveled and puffy bags bulged from beneath his eyes.
    • His right eye is swollen, puffy and seeping something murky.
    • Jenny's eyes were red and swollen and her cheeks were puffy.
    Synonyms
    swollen, puffed up, distended, enlarged, full, inflated, dilated, bloated, engorged, bulging, baggy
  • 2Soft, rounded, and light.

    松软的;圆形的;轻柔的

    small puffy clouds

    小片轻柔的云朵。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her voice was light and soft as a puffy white cloud.
    • Instead of a light, puffy, cherry-studded pudding, the result was a nasty, pasty, cherry omelette that was scraped into the bin before anyone could see it.
    • They weren't storm clouds or anything, just pretty, puffy white clouds.
    • Cream crackers, light and puffy sweets, are also popular.
    • Outside the town, they had built a factory producing chemical fertilizers which sent at times huge puffy purple clouds over the surroundings.
    • Clouds, puffy and white, drifted lazily in the hot sky.
    • There were only a few light puffy clouds in the blue sky.
    • The sun burned the mist away a couple of hours after dawn, and left us with a blue sky populated with the very best kind of puffy white cloud.
    • The sky began to clear and there were puffy white clouds forming as the evening faded away.
    • The high puffy clouds formed in the afternoon turning it into a connect-the-dots day.
    • The pastry was golden, light, puffy and good enough to be home-made, betraying none of the vegetable fat lardiness of bought-in catering stuff.
    • While there were several white, puffy cumulus clouds in the area, they looked far from ominous, and I saw nothing to cause us concern.
    • The small puffy cumulus cloud takes 10 minutes to form and 10 minutes to decay.
    • The back even has puffy white clouds to signify sky, replacing the old standard of parallel arches and lending a greater degree of realism to the piece.
    • A further variation is found in the rich shortcrust used for the Russian coulibiac, which differs in being made with yeast, which makes it light and puffy.
    • Small clusters of puffy white clouds drifted over the horizon lazily.
    • Blue sky, soft, puffy clouds of white with the slightest hint of purple in them.
    • Like all the meals, the jerk comes with red peas (kidney beans) and rice, as well as plantains that are puffy, soft, and sweet like caramel.
    • The sky was filled with all sorts of red and orange mixture and soon the sky was filled with puffy soft clouds and twinkling stars.
    • The sun was shining, the clouds were puffy, white and scattered, and it was very balmy.
    1. 2.1 (of a garment or part of a garment) padded or gathered to give a rounded shape.
      (衣服等)内加衬垫或打褶裥而膨起的,打泡裥的
      a puffy blue ski jacket

      膨起的蓝色滑雪衫。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • She replied, straightening out her own puffy dress.
      • Snapping out of her trance, she stood up quickly and found herself staring at some stranger with spiked brownish hair and an extremely large puffy jacket.
      • She was wearing a pair of dark green pants, and a deep pink puffy shirt with a black corset covering it.
      • She looked absolutely beautiful, and it was more than the usual overly styled hair and huge puffy dress that girls usually wore to the spring formal.
      • But ‘marriage’ is not necessarily defined as frocking up in a white puffy gown and waltzing down the aisle.
      • I had a white towel wrapped around my head, a white robe wrapped around my body and a black puffy Cinderella dress waiting for me by the closet.
      • You don't see me wearing any puffy dresses, do you?
      • I dug out a white puffy jacket that always seemed to make me look twice the size I really am.
      • They shuffled in carrying composition notebooks and wearing puffy jackets, tapered jeans, and Timberland boots.
      • They brushed out my puffy skirt and pushed me out the door.
      • Plus, I think I could carry off the pirate look, puffy shirt and all.
      • Elaine would be wearing a floor-length, old-fashioned, pink silk gown, complete with puffy skirt à la Gone With the Wind.
      • The bottom half was a gigantic, puffy skirt that would probably be calf-length on anyone else, but would probably wind up being just below my knees.
      • Shoving his hands into the pockets of his tremendously puffy jacket, he heard crinkling and pulled out a slight crumpled piece of paper.
      • Not many actors can sing, dance, wear a puffy shirt and do pratfalls while still looking macho.
      • But the fire at the start began fading before he was half way along, so it wasn't quite the spectacle it might have been, even though he was wearing a puffy shirt.
      • Bouffant American ladies in puffy jackets laugh and talk loudly.
      • My own dress was the daftest display of taffeta you'll ever see, something to do with the fact that they'd taken a puffy dress for a thinner girl and blown it up.
      • You'll never again have to wear three sweaters and a puffy jacket to look wide.
      • It could be that my judgment has become impaired by all the puffy dresses and diamonds in these magazines.
  • 3(of wind or breath) coming in short bursts.

    喘息的

    his breath was puffy and fast

    他的呼吸又紧又急。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He got all puffy and started breathing hard again.
    • She was squinting in the sun, saying she'd warmed to that photogenic blue sky / puffy breath combo.
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