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comparative puffier, superlative puffiest
Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like. examples
Coming or exhaling in puffs. examples
Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner. quotations examples
There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time.
2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 20