puffy

adj 1: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a

bouffant skirt" [syn: {bouffant}]

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"

[syn: {bloated}, {distended}, {puffed}, {swollen}, {tumescent},

{tumid}]

3: breathing heavily [syn: {huffing}, {puffing}]

puff

To decompress data that has been crunched by

{Huffman coding}. At least one widely distributed Huffman

decoder program was actually ▫named▫ "PUFF", but these days it

is usually packaged with the encoder.

Opposite: {huff}.

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(1996-10-16)