puft

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To puff.
noun
  1. A puff.

Word forms

puft pufts pufting pufted

Etymology

From Middle English poften (“to puff, pant”), from Old English *puffettan, from Proto-West Germanic *puffattjan (“to puff repeatedly, pant”), equivalent to puff + -t.

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