puffy

puffy
adj
1. gusty, blasty, blustery, squally; windy, breezy, airy.
2. short-winded, panting, blowing, out of breath, breathless, winded, blown, exhausted, gasping, wheezing.
3. inflated, Obs. sufflated, swollen, distended, turgid, tumid, bulging, bulbous; expanded, dilated, enlarged; bloated, dropsical, edematous; fat, corpulent, pursy, fleshy, rotund, stout, portly; plump, tubby, paunchy, bellied out, bowed out; full, bouncing, round, large, buxom, ample.
4. conceited, self-important, self-esteeming, self-admiring, self-worshiping, self-centered, egocentric, narcissistic, peacockish, Sl. stuck or hung up on oneself; proud, overproud, overweening, vain, vainglorious, egotistical, swell-headed, Inf. big-headed, puffed-up; haughty, supercilious, snobbish, Sl. uppity, Sl. snooty, Inf. nose-in-the-air, high-and-mighty, Sl. stuck-up, Sl. snotty; smug, complacent, self-satisfied, self-contented; boastful, bragging, crowing, blustering.
5. bombastic, pompous, orotund, fustian, pretentious, ostentatious, flaunting; grandiose, magniloquent, grandiloquent, Johnsonian, Ossianic, sonorous, sesquipedalian; high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, Inf. highfalutin, Inf. high-hat; extravagant, ranting, mouthy, declamatory; flamboyant, flashy, showy, ornate, ornamental, flowery, florid.

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