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puff·y
puh fi
比较级:puffier
最高级:puffiest
puffily (adv.), puffiness (n.)
词根:puff
n.puff 粉扑;泡芙;蓬松;一阵喷烟;肿块;吹嘘,宣传广告
puffery 夸大广告;吹捧;极力称赞
puffer 河豚;吹捧者;喷气的人;抬价者
vi.puff 膨胀;张开;鼓吹;夸张
vt.puff 喷出,张开;使膨胀;夸张;使骄傲自满
adjective
swollen in size : bloated … Hagrid gazed at him for a moment through his puffy, blackened eyes, apparently taken aback.—J. K. Rowling … who was … blind drunk, her voice slurry and her face puffy.—Edna O'Brienalso: chubby Fatty Hicks, the shrill and puffy son of Nat, flapped his hand at the beautiful stranger … —Sinclair Lewis
puffy lips
having a puffed up form or appearance : soft, light, and fluffy a puffy bun puffy hair It is very difficult to shake hands when you're wearing ski mittens. They're so puffy and fat it's like shaking hands with giant marshmallows.—Ann M. Martin Not far away is a Georgian bakery where we found long, puffy loaves of wonderfully crisp bread.—Jeffrey Steingarten
puffy white clouds
blowing in puffs : gusty
a strong, puffy wind
characterized by vanity or ostentation : pompous, showy All of my small, puffy pride at being the skipper of a tiny unit in a great nation victorious over the forces of evil seemed to blow away before the drunken racket of those three thousand men.—Louis Auchincloss
puffy rhetoric
1610年代,用于描述风,“阵阵猛烈的”,源自 puff 和 -y(2)。用于形容其他事物,“肿胀的”,好像充满了空气或柔软的物质,最早可追溯到1660年代。最早的用法是比喻性的,“夸张的”(1590年代)。相关词汇: Puffily; puffiness。
The first known use of puffy was circa 1594
1 Her face was puffy from crying, and her lips were cracked, with bits of discolored skin peeling off.
2 He knew that she also had a bookcase full of books she was ready to loan out to anyone, and puffy chairs that were way more comfortable than principal-office chairs always sounded in stories.
3 When she came out, her eyes were all red and puffy, but she pretended nothing had happened.
4 I don’t like being trapped by the puffy blue wall like this though.
5 “For the Collective,” I say, hoping my eyes aren’t puffy from crying.
6 She stops dead when she sees me, staring at me with red, puffy eyes.
7 He looks up with red, puffy eyes that I’ve never seen on my brother before.
8 He had pulled off his helmet and his neck roll and sat on the bench exhausted and almost stunned, his eyes puffy and nearly closed, as if someone had pummeled him in a fight.
9 Papa, whose eyes were puffy and red, cursed the rain.
10 In round two the contestants were given dozens of inner tubes and instructed to stack them into tall, puffy towers, which were immediately knocked down by the afternoon's second vachette.
11 There’s that wide puffy cloud that looks like your face when you wake up after falling asleep with all your clothes on.
12 I can’t even speak, and I know there’s going to be a puffy red handprint on my left cheek for a good long time.
13 In her puffy blue robe, eyes red rimmed, Linda leaned against a kitchen counter waiting for coffee water to boil.
14 This is why you always have puffy eyes in the morning after you drink.
这就是为什么每当你喝完酒后的第二天清晨,你的眼睛总是肿肿的了。
15 It looked bruised and puffy and all the wrong colors.
16 In the lights of the coaches’ office the agony showed, the handsomeness replaced by a weary sallowness, his eyes drawn tight and puffy from lack of sleep.
17 Her eyes were puffy from crying.
她眼睛都哭肿了。
18 I took the papers and flopped down on my bed, sinking into my puffy goose-down duvet.
19 So are other objects from television and movies — like "Rocky's" boxing gloves and an ugly puffy shirt from a "Seinfeld" show.
还有一些电视和电影中的道具,如《Rockys》(《洛基》)电影中的拳击手套和《Seinfeld》(《辛菲尔德》)电视中的丑陋的蓬松的上衣等。
20 The letters are big and puffy and white, and they remind me of squished marshmallows.
1 喘息的
2 肥胖
round fat stout plump fleshy upholstered overblown portly porky corpulent matronly well-covered full-figured lardy pursy fozy pursiness foziness obesity hypertrophy fatness grossness plumpness avoirdupois corpulence rotundity portliness obese adipose well-upholstered fubsy flesh embonpoint tubbish fatty plumpy chuffy abdominous obeseness adiposity fleshiness corpulency fodgel five-by-five gross bulky beefy replete full-bodied fleshly fatted bacony adiposis fullness puffiness flab elephantiasis
6 膨胀
dilatant expansile swollen blown inflated bladdery intumescent dilative distent upblown sufflation expansion inflation swell swelling bulge puffiness dilatation distension aggrandisement dilatancy bulginess intumescence intumesce expand puff inflate dilate bilge distend plim bloat plump leaven turgid dilation voluminous stodgy tumescent tumid pod bag huff tumefy bloat out
9 阵阵吹的
10 蓬松的
11 气喘吁吁的
13 自负的
cock-a-hoop self-affected vauntful vogie self-opinioned huffish cockish grand confident vain assuming stuffy pretentious overblown swanky pompous pontifical vaunted conceited boastful overconfident self-assured self-important chesty ditzy cocksure flatulent priggish self-opinionated high-blown vaunty toplofty biggety
14 骄傲的
supermanish big popular proud pride crank swollen lofty cocky haughty ritzy chesty snippy hoity-toity priggish uppish highflying high-hat swollen-headed highty-tighty toplofty cock-a-hoop proud hearted
15 膨胀的
dilatant expansile swollen blown inflated bladdery intumescent dilative distent upblown turgid voluminous stodgy tumescent tumid
20 鼓胀
21 一阵阵的
22 膨起
23 肥胖的
round fat stout plump fleshy upholstered overblown portly porky corpulent matronly well-covered full-figured lardy pursy fozy obese adipose well-upholstered fubsy tubbish fatty plumpy chuffy abdominous fodgel five-by-five gross bulky beefy replete full-bodied fleshly fatted bacony
24 夸大
grandiose pompous bombastic gassy vaulting blown-up bombast high-sounding grandiloquent fustian overshot highfalutin magniloquent hifalutin highfaluting exaggerative big pomposity stretchability grandiloquence exaggerate hyperbolize overpitch stretch amplify magnify overstate overdraw mouth filling large swollen inflated hyperbolic vaporous high-flown plethoric OTT megal- inflation borax tympany vaporing romance fudge aggrandize aggrandise put it on
26 自负
cock-a-hoop self-affected vauntful vogie self-opinioned huffish cockish grand confident vain assuming stuffy pretentious overblown swanky pompous pontifical vaunted conceited boastful overconfident self-assured self-important chesty ditzy cocksure flatulent priggish self-opinionated high-blown vaunty toplofty biggety big overconfidently self-trust self-assumption security wind confidence superior pride boast ego self-esteem self-confidence conceit pragmatism self-love flatulence overconfidence egoism self-assurance self-worth vainglory vaunt pomposity self-conceit tympany self-pride self-admiration self-opinion self-glory swell huff high-hat think penny silver be above oneself
27 松散
28 松散的
29 气短的
30 夸大的
grandiose pompous bombastic gassy vaulting blown-up bombast high-sounding grandiloquent fustian overshot highfalutin magniloquent hifalutin highfaluting exaggerative mouth filling large swollen inflated hyperbolic vaporous high-flown plethoric OTT megal-
31 肿胀的
bloated turgid tumescent swelling swollen puffed irritated distended engorged turgent tumefacient strut inflated tumid bullate
32 肿胀
bloated turgid tumescent bump swelling puffiness intumescence swell swollen puffed bloat distend irritated distended engorged irritate puff up turgent tumefacient strut inflated tumid bullate turgescence bulge turgor tumescence turgidity tumefaction tumefy
33 鼓胀的
34 趾高气扬
bloated cocky high-and-mighty coxy biggety cocksy tall swell cock tumefy carry head high be on high horse walk tall on cockhorse in alt hold head high on high horse
35 喘气
breathless wheezingly pursiness pant gasp blow puff breathe puff and blow puff and pant short-winded broken-winded windbroken wind pump