puffing
noun
1. blowing tobacco smoke out into the air
- they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing
Definition categories: act, smoke, smoking
2. an act of forcible exhalation
Similar word(s): huffing, snorting
Definition categories: act, exhalation, expiration
Sentences with puffing as a noun:
- the puffings and pantings of a man running to catch a train
verb
1. present participle of puff
2. (US) Leaving a car engine running unattended, especially in cold weather to warm it up.