- 2. Pant, breathe hard.
Puff, v. a.
- 1. Blow.
- 2. Swell, inflate.
- 3. Praise (extravagantly), compliment, flatter.
Puffed up. Conceited, proud, haughty, overweening, vain-glorious, vain.
Puffer, n. (Ich.) Globe-fish.
Puffin, n. (Ornith.) Coulter-neb, Labrador auk (Alca Arctica).
Puffing, a. Bragging, boasting.
Puff up. Inflate, swell, blow up.
Puffy, a.
- 1. Swelled, swollen, tumid, turgid, puffed out, distended.
- 2. Bombastic, inflated, extravagant, turgid, tumid, pompous.
Pugh, interj. Pshaw, poh, fudge, pish.
Pugilism, n. Boxing, fisticuffs, fighting with the fist.
Pugilist, n. Boxer.
Pugnacious, a. Quarrelsome, fighting, contentious.
Pugnacity, n. Quarrelsomeness.
Pugnis et calcibus. [L.] With fists and heels, with all one’s might, tooth and nail, hammer and tongs.
Puissance, n. Power, force, strength, might, potency.
Puissant, a. Powerful, strong, mighty, forcible, potent.
Puke, v. n.
- 1. Vomit, spew.
- 2. Sicken, be disgusted.