What is the meaning of puffing?

noun

• Blowing tobacco smoke out into the air.
  • usage: "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"
• An act of forcible exhalation.
  • synonyms: huffing, snorting

verb

• Smoke and exhale strongly.
  • usage: "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"
  • synonyms: puff, whiff
• Suck in or take (air. )
  • usage: "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
  • synonyms: puff, drag, draw
• Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted.
  • usage: "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
  • synonyms: pant, puff, gasp, heave
• Make proud or conceited.
  • usage: "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
  • synonyms: puff
• Praise extravagantly.
  • usage: "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
  • synonyms: puff, puff up
• Speak in a blustering or scornful manner.
  • usage: "A puffing kind of man"
  • synonyms: puff
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: puff, puff up, blow up, puff out
• Blow hard and loudly.
  • usage: "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
  • synonyms: puff, huff, chuff