To blow with quick, intermittent blasts; emit a whiff, as of wind, air, or smoke.To blow, as an expression of scorn or contempt; snort; sneer.To breathe with agitation, as after violent exertion.To act or move with flurry and a swelling, bustling appearance; assume importance.To blow; send forth in quick short blasts or whiffs; drive with a blast.To draw smoke through, or send out smoke from.To fill, inflate, or expand with breath or air, and figuratively with pride, vanity, conceit, etc.; swell: frequently with up: as, puffed up with success; puffed with ambition.To praise with exaggeration; give undue or servile praise to.n. A sharp, forcible blast; a whiff; a sudden emission, as of air from the mouth, or smoke from the stack of an engine; also, as much as is suddenly so emitted at one time.n. A puffball.n. An inflated, swollen, light, fluffy, or porous thing or part.n. A light, porous, spongy, or friable cake, generally filled with preserve or the like: as, cream-puffs; jam-puffs.n. An implement consisting of swan's down or a wad of flossy or loose texture, used for applying powder to the hair or skin. See powderpuff.n. Exaggerated or undue praise uttered or written from an interested point of view; especially, a written commendation of a book, an actor's or a singer's performance, a tradesman's goods, or the like.n. One who is puffed up; an inflated, conceited person.n. One who writes puffs.n. A small vessel with minute openings for scattering liquid perfumes.An exclamation of contempt or impatience.In botany, to discharge suddenly a clond of spores, as frequently occurs in certain fungi.