Puff
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; - often with up.
(2): ( v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
(3): ( v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
(4): ( n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
(5): ( a.) Puffed up; vain.
(6): ( v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
(7): ( n.) Anything light and filled with air.
(8): ( n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
(9): ( n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; - with at.
(10): ( n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
(11): ( n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
(12): ( n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
(13): ( n.) a kind of light pastry.
(14): ( n.) A puffball.
(15): ( n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
(16): ( n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
(17): ( v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; - often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"to puff up, blow up, inflate" (from phusa, "bellows"), is used metaphorically in the NT, in the sense of being "puffed" up with pride, 1—Corinthians 4:6,18,19; 5:2; 8:1; 13:4; Colossians 2:18 .
is always rendered "to puff up" in the RV. See High-Minded , Proud.
King James Dictionary [3]
PUFF, n.
1. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth a quick forcible blast a whiff. 2. A sudden and short blast of wind. 3. A fungous ball filled with dust. 4. Any thing light and porous, or something swelled and light as puff-paste. 5. A substance of loose texture, used to sprinkle powder on the hair. 6. A tumid or exaggerated statement or commendation.
PUFF,
1. To drive air from the mouth in a single and quick blast. 2. To swell the cheeks with air. 3. To blow as an expression of scorn or contempt.
It is really to defy heaven, to puff at damnation.
4. To breathe with vehemence, as after violent exertion.
The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing from the chase.
5. To do or move with hurry, agitation and a tumid, bustling appearance.
Then came brave glory puffing by.
6. To swell with air to dilate or inflate.
PUFF, To drive with a blast of wind or air as, the north wind puffs away the clouds.
1. To swell to inflate to dilate with air as a bladder puffed with air.
The sea puffed up with winds.
2. To swell to inflate to blow up as puffed up with pride, vanity or conceit to puff up with praise or flattery. 3. To drive with a blast in scorn or contempt.
I puff the prostitute away.
4. To praise with exaggeration as to puff a pamphlet.
