Adjective
- 1. bouffant, puffy, large (vs. small), big (vs. little)
- usage: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt"
- 2. puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid, unhealthy (vs. healthy)
- usage: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
- 3. gusty, puffy, stormy (vs. calm)
- usage: blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-shore winds"; "gusty winds "
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