Weed vs Puff - What's the difference?

Puff is a synonym of weed.

In countable terms the difference between weed and puff

is that weed is a species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance while puff is a light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.

In uncountable slang terms the difference between weed and puff

is that weed is marijuana while puff is the drug cannabis.

As nouns the difference between weed and puff

is that weed is a plant while puff is a sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.

As verbs the difference between weed and puff

is that weed is to remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area while puff is to emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.

weed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A plant.

# (label) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

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# (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.

# Short for duckweed.

# Underbrush; low shrubs.

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

one rushing forth out of the thickest weed

#* (1809-1892)

A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

# Marijuana.

# Tobacco.

# A cigar.

A horse unfit to breed from.

A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* goutweed * hawkweed * horseweed * in the weeds * knapweed * knotweed * milkweed * pigweed * ragweed * tumbleweed

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

I weeded my flower bed.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) , from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate to Dutch lijnwaad, gewaad, German Wat.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

* 1599 ,

DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;

And then to Leonato's we will go.

CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

He wore a weed on his hat.

(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel

* Milton

In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Etymology 4

From the verb wee.

Verb

(head)

(wee)

References

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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