Meaning & Definition of Puffy in English

1. Being puffed out

• Used of hair style or clothing

• "A bouffant skirt"

2. Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

• "Hungry children with bloated stomachs"

• "He had a grossly distended stomach"

• "Eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"

• "Swollen hands"

• "Tumescent tissue"

• "Puffy tumid flesh"

3. Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts

• "Puffy off-shore winds"

• "Gusty winds "