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:
“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.)
“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)