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puffs

/pʌfs/

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What does puffs mean?

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of puff

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IPA pronunciation

/pʌfs/

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She was a little lady with snow-white hair beautifully wavy and thick, and carefully arranged in becoming puffs and coils.
L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryAnne of AvonleaProject Gutenberg ebook #47
The enemy’s guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker.
Leo, graf TolstoyWar and PeaceTranslated by Aylmer Maude; Louise MaudeProject Gutenberg ebook #2600
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She turned the leaves searching, but three times, with sudden puffs, the wind blew the leaves rustling back to the same verses.
George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North WindProject Gutenberg ebook #225
Seen in advance of all the other indications, the puffs of vapor they spouted, seemed their forerunning couriers and detached flying outriders.
Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleProject Gutenberg ebook #2701
Blue puffs of smoke came from the stovepipe that stuck out through the grass and snow, but the wind whisked them roughly away.
Willa CatherMy ÁntoniaProject Gutenberg ebook #242