[syn: gusty, puffy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Puffy \Puff"y\, a.
1. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft
substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. " A very
stout, puffy man." --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
puffy
adj 1: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a
bouffant skirt" [syn: bouffant, puffy]
2: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended
stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen
hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn:
puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid]
3: blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-
shore winds"; "gusty winds " [syn: gusty, puffy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "puffy":
adipose, aeolian, airish, airy, arrogant, beefy, big-bellied,
blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blowzy, blustering, blusterous,
blustery, boreal, bosomy, brawny, breezy, brisk, burly, buxom,
chubby, chunky, corpulent, dilated, distended, drafty, dropsical,
dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, favonian, flatulent,
flawy, fleshy, fresh, full, gassy, gross, gusty, heavyset, hefty,
hippy, important, imposing, incrassate, inflated, lusty,
magisterial, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plethoric, plump,
podgy, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffed up, pursy,
roly-poly, rotund, self-important, squally, square, squat, squatty,
stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffy, swelled, swollen,
thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose,
well-fed, windy