puff (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 32
def speak in a blustering or scornful manner
examples A puffing kind of man
Frame - 2 Somebody ----s
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Hypernym boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade
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Hyponym boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade

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