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puffy

[puhf-ee] / ˈpʌf i /


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Mia said she hopes to pick a green dress and does not want "something big and puffy".

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

For something completely different, I decided to try her New York Dutch Baby, which is a kind of giant, puffy pancake akin to Yorkshire pudding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

He’s always lived in Bedford Falls — er, Hill Valley — and while his puffy red vest gets him mistaken for a sailor, he behaves more like a frog in an already boiling pot.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

"Supermassive dark stars are extremely bright, giant, yet puffy clouds made primarily out of hydrogen and helium, which are supported against gravitational collapse by the minute amounts of self-annihilating dark matter inside them," Ilie said.

From Science Daily • Oct. 14, 2025

Her eyes don’t look as big and bright without it, and the skin around them is puffy.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison