puffy

comparative puffier · superlative puffiest

1. Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
2. Coming or exhaling in puffs.

   puffy breath

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   A puffy fat man in a tracksuit came jogging around the corner.

3. Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.

   There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time.

   2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 20

4. Having inflated cheeks.