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Puerile
- adjective - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
- of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing"
Puff Up
- verb - become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
- make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up"
- praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
- to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
- to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
Puffers
- noun - 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
- delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
Puffery
- noun - a flattering commendation (especially when used for promotional purposes)
Puffier
- adjective - 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"
- being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt"
- blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-shore winds"; "gusty winds "
Puffing
- verb - an act of forcible exhalation
- blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
- blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
- make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
- praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
- smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man"
- suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
- to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
Puffins
- noun - any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
Pug-Dog
- noun - small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle
Pugging
- - The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.
Puggree
- - A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun.