Puffing Billy may refer to:
- Puffing Billy Railway, a narrow gauge tourist railway near Melbourne, Australia
- Puffing Billy (locomotive), an early steam locomotive
- Puffing Billy Tournament, a board game convention focusing on train games
- Puffin' Billy, a famous piece of light music by Edward White
- Puffing Billy, military jargon for the M67 Immersion Heater
- Puffing Billy a short lived comic strip in The Beano about a fat boy called Billy.
Famous quotes containing the words puffing and/or billy:
“Again we mistook a little rocky islet seen through the “drisk,” with some taller bare trunks or stumps on it, for the steamer with its smoke-pipes, but as it had not changed its position after half an hour, we were undeceived. So much do the works of man resemble the works of nature. A moose might mistake a steamer for a floating isle, and not be scared till he heard its puffing or its whistle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““Although I’d lie lapped up in linen
A deal I’d sweat and little earn
If I should live as live the neighbours,”
Cried the beggar, Billy Byrne....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)