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is puffy
adjective
Of or pertaining to puffs or puffiness; being pillow-like, exhibiting swelling, inflated.
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His face is puffy.
If Mr. Gore is puffy, Mr. Clinton is undeniably slimmer after months on the low-carb South Beach diet.
Mr. Bolick, for his part, said, "I understand they are trying to grasp at silver linings, but the cloud is puffy and white".
Ruth van Waerebeek's book The Taste of Belgium offers a yeasted buckwheat pancake recipe from her grandmother Marie that, although it is puffy and slightly risen rather than wafer thin, deserves a special mention.
Kieran's face is puffy and a nerve is jumping beside his right eye; he hunches over the rolling papers in a tension of fatigue that makes Sam worry that the job in cardiology at Barts is disillusioning, and that Kieran is beginning to brood over this second career, which was supposed to save his life from academic futility.
Oh, wow, here it is: Puffy's 60-carat diamond.
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He is called Popeye today at age 69 because he is puffy-cheeked, like the cartoon character.
Faces were puffy.
Their feathers are puffy and unkempt.
His mother's face was puffy and blank.
Her face was puffy and blotched with red.
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