puffy Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
    bouffant.
    • a bouffant skirt
  2. adjective satellite abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
    tumid; tumescent; intumescent; turgid.
    • 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. adjective satellite blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts
    gusty.
    • puffy off-shore winds
    • gusty winds

WordNet

Puff"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. " A very stout, puffy man." Thackeray.
  2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.

Webster 1913