puffing
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈpʌfɪŋ/
:
fumando
- Field simply nodded and set off (with me, puzzled, following) after our two cigar-puffing actors.
- cigar puffing
- pipe puffing
- HUFFING AND PUFFING
Examples
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Stuffed with lasagna and puffing contentedly on his pipe, he contemplated the device he'd reconstructed in bemused bafflement.
Fiction book (2001) -
As they enjoyed their evening, the group sat together, puffing on their cigars and sharing stories.
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Now, if you give me a match I'll do my own puffing.
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There are smiles all around, puffing, and a lot of cigar smoke.
Fiction book (2001) -
Morse is sitting at the table by the window, playing something involving dice with a cigar-puffing club member.
Fiction book (1999) -
The station wagon was in the driveway, gray clouds of exhaust puffing from the tailpipes.
Fiction book (1996) -
In other words, a heavy smoker's incessant puffing may be attributable to nervous constitution rather than to a physiological need.
Academic text (2011) -
In the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, the pipe-puffing crime solver is called to a house to help Scotland Yarders Gregson and Lestrade investigate a murder.
Academic text (2012) -
After taking a long drag from his cigar, he leaned back in his chair, puffing clouds of smoke into the air.
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The old man was sitting on the porch, puffing on his pipe while watching the sunset.
Synonyms
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1.4
The habit of breathing in and out tobacco smoke
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2.3
The act of inhaling and exhaling tobacco fumes
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4.8
Inhaling and exhaling vapor from an electronic cigarette often containing nicotine
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4.3
Breathing out air from the lungs or the air that you breathe out
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6.1
A forceful breath out that shows you are tired, working hard, or annoyed
Antonyms
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Puffing comes from the short sound-word puff, which copies a small blast of air. Think of a 'puff' of smoke from a cigarette; that's why puffing means blowing out smoke.