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Puff vs Shirt - What's the difference?

puff | shirt |

As nouns the difference between puff and shirt

is that puff is (colloquial) brothel, bordello while shirt is an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

As a verb shirt is

to cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.

puff

English

Noun

  • (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
  • (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
    • out of puff
  • (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
    • puff of smoke
  • * Flatman
    • to every puff of wind a slave
  • (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
  • (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement about an object's quality.
  • (dated, slang) A puffer, one who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; an act or scam of that type.
  • * 1842 , "A Paper on Puffing", in Ainsworth's Magazine
    • Is nothing to be said in praise of the "Emporiums" and "Repositories" and "Divans," which formerly were mere insignificant tailors', toymen's, and tobacconists' shops? Is the transition from the barber's pole to the revolving bust of the perruquier, nothing? — the leap from the bare counter-traversed shop to the carpeted and mirrored saloon of trade, nothing? Are they not, one and all, practical puffs , intended to invest commerce with elegance, and to throw a halo round extravagance?
  • * 1848 , Mrs. White, "Puffs and Puffing", in Sharpe's London Magazine
    • Here the duke is made the vehicle of the tailor's advertisement, and the prelusive compliments, ostensibly meant for his grace, merge into a covert recommendation of the coat. Several specimens might be given of this species of puff , which is to be met with in almost every paper, and is a favourite form with booksellers, professional men, &c.
  • * 2008 , David Paton-Williamspage, Katterfelto , page xii
    • He was the eighteenth century king of spin, or, in the language of the day, the "prince of puff ".
  • A puffball.
  • A powder puff.
  • (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
  • (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
    • cream puff
  • (derogatory, slang, British, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof
  • (slang, dated, UK) life
  • * 1938 , P. G. Wodehouse (Bertie Wooster speaking of Spode) in The Code of the Woosters
    • Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?

    Synonyms

    * (sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth) * (ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself) wind * (small quantity of gas or smoke in the air) * drag * (cannabis) blow, dope, ganja, pot, weed; see also * (type of cake) pastry * (poof) See poof

    Derived terms

    * powder puff * puff pastry * puffer * puffery * puffing * puff piece

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
  • To pant.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the chase.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
    • Puffing and panting, we plodded on until within about a mile of the harbor we came upon a sight that brought us all up standing.
  • (archaic) To advertise.
  • To blow as an expression of scorn.
  • * South
    • It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.
  • To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
    • (Boyle)
  • To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
  • * Herbert
    • Then came brave Glory puffing by.
  • To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
  • * Dryden
    • The clearing north will puff the clouds away.
  • To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
  • * Dryden
    • I puff the prostitute away.
  • To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
    • a bladder puffed with air
  • * Shakespeare
    • the sea puffed up with winds
  • To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up .
  • * Jowett
    • puffed up with military success
  • To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
  • * Macaulay
    • puffed with wonderful skill

    Derived terms

    * puffed * puff up * puff out

    shirt

    English

    (wikipedia shirt)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
  • * Addison
    • Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts .
  • * Bishop Fisher
    • She had her shirts and girdles of hair.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.}}
  • a member of the shirt-wearing team.

    • Derived terms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
    • (Dryden)

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