puffing

1. 1.

   blowing tobacco smoke out into the air

   “they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing”

   Broadersmoke
2. 2.

   an act of forcible exhalation

   Synonymshuffingsnorting

   Broaderexhalation

Other forms of puffing

plural

puffings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about puffing

What does puffing mean?

puffing means "blowing tobacco smoke out into the air". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in puffing?

puffing has 2 syllables: puf-fing. The stress falls on "puf". In IPA it is /ˈpʌfɪŋ/.

What is another word for puffing?

Close synonyms include huffing, snorting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is puffing a common word?

puffing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.