puff

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This is yet another shallow puff piece on Haskell.

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Quick take

a short light gust of air

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a short light gust of air

noun

a light inflated pastry or puff shell

noun

exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for puff.

noun

a short light gust of air

noun

a light inflated pastry or puff shell

noun

exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)

noun

bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

noun

a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin

noun

thick cushion used as a seat

See also: ottoman, pouf, pouffe, hassock

noun

a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"

noun

forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff"

verb

smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"

verb

suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"

verb

breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

verb

make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego"

verb

praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"

verb

speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man"

verb

to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"

verb

blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"

adjective

gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"

Example sentences

This is yet another shallow puff piece on Haskell.

I'll call Bloomberg and see if they have any spots available for vacuous puff pieces.

Levitt & Dubner had a chapter in their book which was glowing puff piece about Intellectual Ventures.

This reads mostly like a content-free puff piece, where Pincus' former assistant is kissing his former boss' ass.

Insurers are presumably fine with misleading reports that puff up their value.

Suddenly I felt calm and proceeded to throw out some cool graphics in Photoshop and made an excellent puff pastry quiche.

" Apparently, whoever writes these things has been taught to puff the company right up front to give the release maximum impact.

Wow... when I saw the headline, I naturally expected yet another puff piece extolling the genius of Nathan Myhrvold to all who will listen.

Every statement, every conversation, every fact is just another opportunity for them to put something down or puff themselves up.

I don't want Aspberger's to define me, and I wish that CNN would be more supportive of people who are working to overcome their disabilities instead of writing a puff piece about how special and disabled we are.

"Dispensing this kind of wisdom seems to be yet another popular form of 'premature victory lap' on HN, where fairly wet-behind-the-ears types with no major runs on the board can puff themselves up by handing out the Keys to Their Success.

From a purely practical perspective, why would a terrorist leader send an attacker whom many Americans immediately view as "suspicious", when he could send someone who appears more "normal"?On another note, people these days still puff out their chests and say the terrorists couldn't change our way of life.

I know exactly what this guy Milgram is getting at: in my experience as a student, progressive methods were occasionally wielded effectively by a few of my best teachers, but most teachers used them to take a break from engaging with the material and puff up the grades of the kids who were struggling.