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Puckish
- adjective - naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank"
Pudding
- noun - (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally)
- any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed
- any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes;
Pudgier
- adjective - short and plump
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"
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
Pugging
- - The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.
Pulling
- verb - apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion; "Pull the rope"; "Pull the handle towards you"; "pull the string gently"; "pull the trigger of the gun"; "pull your knees towards your chin"
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
- cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense; "A declining dollar pulled down the export figures for the last quarter"
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
Pulpier
- adjective - like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness