1. puffing - Noun
2. puffing - Verb
of Puff
a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
[make drawings of] series of instruments and players; their shapes, twisting of the hands, arms and neck of the violinist; for example, puffing out and hollowing of the cheeks of bassoonists, oboists, etc.. Edgar Degas
I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, "Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great." Bill Hicks
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub. Jack Kerouac
Behold the iguana puffing itself out to make itself a man! South African Proverb
Easy to run downhill, much puffing to run up. Chinese Proverb