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Puffiness

noun
1.
An abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement.  Synonyms: lump, swelling.
2.
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity.  Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness.





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"Puffiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... beam quivers undecidedly. The bearded miner, with the rest, looked shiftily toward the man who had done the speaking, the bald-headed one, whose khaki and nail-studded boots were belied by the softness and puffiness of his flesh, the sags and wrinkles beneath his eyes and under his double chins. He had little gray-green orbs ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn


Words linked to "Puffiness" :   inelegance, bunion, pretentiousness, iridoncus, symptom, oscheocoele, intumescency, lymphogranuloma, inflation, enlargement, hematocoele, bloat, intumescence, hematocele, haematocoele, pompousness, haematocele, oedema, edema, puffy, tumidness, tumidity, hydrops, dropsy, oscheocele, spermatocele


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