Puff

Puff may refer to:

In foods with high air content:

  • Puffed grain
  • Puff pastry
  • Cocoa Puffs
  • Cream puff, profiterole

In low-density objects:

  • Powder puff, face-powder applicator
  • Puffs, a brand of facial tissue

In animals:

  • Puffer, fish in family Tetraodontidae
  • Puff adder, snake biological taxa

In computer:

  • PUFFS, a NetBSD kernel subsystem developed for running filesystems in userspace.

In other usage:

  • Puff Daddy or Sean Combs (born 1969), American entertainer
  • Puff, a character in the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon"
  • Puff Piece or Puffery, exaggerated advertising claims
  • Puff, inhalation
  • Puff, light gust of wind
  • "Puff, the Magic Dragon", nickname for the Douglas AC-47 Spooky U.S. Airforce ground-attack aircraft

Famous quotes containing the word puff:

    “A puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out the still night—the first sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight.... The mysterious East faced me, perfumed like a flower, silent like death, dark like a grave.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “Just as petals fall from drying garlands, which you can see aimlessly swimming in wine-bowls are we lovers, who now puff up our chests, but perhaps tomorrow the fateful day will shut us down.”
    —Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)