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"puffs up" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It usually means to swell up or become bigger, such as with air or with pride. You can use it in many contexts. For example, "The wind puffed up the balloon as it flew through the sky."
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puffs up
verb
Third person singular of puff up
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He puffs up with pride.
"It puffs up just like Jiffy Pop".
It puffs up like chicharrón, or, according to one new beef-tendon convert, like a Funyun.
"That makes it lighter and the inside yellow, and it puffs up real light," he explained.
"We have a special technology that puffs up the koala-shaped cookies so there is hollow space inside where soft chocolate can be injected later," Mr. Nakamura said.
Add a touch of flour, and when it fries in oil, it spreads thin like a crepe batter, puffs up and holds together when you flip it.
There is an ironing robot, for instance, that takes the form of an inflatable dummy: put a damp shirt on it, and it puffs up to remove the creases.
The Earth's atmosphere puffs up and deflates depending on how strongly the sun is shining on a particular day, and that phenomenon speeds or slows the rate of falling.
While other berries melt and fall apart when heat is applied, the blueberry puffs up and stiffens, and if the heat is steady, they sometimes pop and wilt, never dissolving, just losing shape like a dead tire.
He puffs up visibly as he refers to his editors as "barons in the land", but at times he must feel a little like Henry II - looking for knights to remove troublesome underlings.
Much better is the compromise hit on by both Theodore Kyriakou and the Prawn Cocktail Years' authors, which involves stirring beaten eggs into a finished bechamel, so it puffs up beautifully in the oven.
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