puffy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
puffy
    adj 1: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a
           bouffant skirt" [syn: {bouffant}, {puffy}]
    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:
       {puffy}, {intumescent}, {tumescent}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
    3: blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-
       shore winds"; "gusty winds " [syn: {gusty}, {puffy}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Puffy \Puff"y\, a.
   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
      [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "puffy":
      adipose, aeolian, airish, airy, arrogant, beefy, big-bellied,
      blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blowzy, blustering, blusterous,
      blustery, boreal, bosomy, brawny, breezy, brisk, burly, buxom,
      chubby, chunky, corpulent, dilated, distended, drafty, dropsical,
      dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, favonian, flatulent,
      flawy, fleshy, fresh, full, gassy, gross, gusty, heavyset, hefty,
      hippy, important, imposing, incrassate, inflated, lusty,
      magisterial, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plethoric, plump,
      podgy, pontifical, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffed up, pursy,
      roly-poly, rotund, self-important, squally, square, squat, squatty,
      stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffy, swelled, swollen,
      thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose,
      well-fed, windy

    

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