adjective
- Being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing.
- usage: "a bouffant skirt"
- synonyms: bouffant
- Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.
- usage: "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
- synonyms: intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid
- Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts.
- usage: "puffy off-shore winds"; "gusty winds "
- synonyms: gusty
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