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3. commendation, recognition, good word, honorable mention; overpraise, overcommendation, overlaudation; publicity, promotion, mention, Sl. boost, Inf plug, Sl. buildup; Sl. hype, Sl. blurb, word, advertising.
-v. 4. whiff, breeze; pant, huff, blow, breathe hard, suck wind; wheeze, gasp, gasp for breath, gulp; (of a locomotive) chug.
5. smoke, inhale, Inf. drag, draw, pull.
6. Usu.

puff up swell, distend, stretch, bloat, balloon, bubble; inflate, Obs. sufflate, pump up, expand, dilate, enlarge, amplify, increase, grow.
7. bluster, roister, boast, Sl. blow hard, Sl. talk big; brag, crow, trumpet, blow one's own horn, toot one's own horn, sing one's own praises; show off, strut, parade, swagger, flaunt.
8. Usu.

puff up magnify, overpraise, overestimate, exaggerate, enhance, color, embroider; eulogize, panegyrize, praise, applaud, laud, extol, exalt, celebrate; compliment, salute, make much of, flatter, Inf. slather, overdo it, lay it on.
9. advertise, promote, advance, push, Inf plug, Inf hype; publicize, bill, subserve; announce, blurb, make known, publish; herald, trumpet, ballyhoo, beat the drum.

puffery, n. 1. undue praise, overpraise, overlaudation, overcommendation, overrating, overvaluation; trumpetry, crying out, ringing or singing [s.o.'sj praises; inflation, inflating, magnification, magnifying, blowing up; All Inf slathering, overdoing it, laying it on, laying it or spreading it on thick, piling it up or on; flattery, compliment, salute, praise, laudation; tribute, extolment, exaltation, celebration, glorification; eulogy, eulogization, encomium, panegyric, adulation.
2. publicity, promotion, build-up, Inf. hype, advertisement, advertising, Sl. ballyhoo, Sl. blurb, Sl. spot, Sl. plug, Inf. write-up, Inf. spread, Inf. press, Sl. flak, fanfare, Sl. hoopla, Inf. whoop-de-doo.

puffy, adj. 1. gusty, blasty, blustery, squally; windy, breezy, airy.
2. short-winded, panting, blowing, out of breath, breathless, winded, blown, exhausted, gasping, wheezing.
3. inflated, Obs. sufflated, swollen, distended, turgid, tumid, bulging, bulbous; expanded, dilated, enlarged; bloated, dropsical, edematous; fat, corpulent, pursy, fleshy, rotund, stout, portly; plump, tubby, paunchy, bellied out, bowed out; full, bouncing, round, large, buxom, ample.
4. conceited, self-important, self-esteeming, self-admiring, self-worshiping, self-centered, egocentric, narcissistic, peacockish, Sl. stuck or hung up on oneself; proud, overproud, overweening, vain, vainglorious, egotistical, swell-headed, Inf. big-headed, puffed-up; haughty, supercilious, snobbish, Sl. uppity, Sl. snooty, Inf. nose-in-the-air, high-and-mighty, Sl. stuck-up, Sl. snotty; smug, complacent, self-satisfied, self-contented; boastful, bragging, crowing, blustering.
5. bombastic, pompous, orotund, fustian, pretentious, ostentatious, flaunting; grandiose, magniloquent, grandiloquent, Johnsonian, Ossianic, sonorous, sesquipedalian; high-sounding, high-flown, lofty, Inf. highfalutin, Inf. high-hat; extravagant, ranting, mouthy, declamatory; flamboyant, flashy, showy, ornate, ornamental, flowery, florid.

pugilism, n. boxing, prize fighting, the art of fisticuffs, fisticuffs, the boxing game,

pugilist, n. boxer, fighter, contestant, contender. See - prize fighter, pugnacious, adj. belligerent, bellicose, combative,