puffen

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• Rhymes: -ʏfən

puffen

1. plural of puf

From Middle Dutch puffen, sharing an imitative Proto-Germanic base with Old English pyffan, Middle English puffen, English puff. Compare Middle Low German puffen.

puffen

1. to puff, blow out (hot air, such as the chugging of a steam engine)
2. (Suriname) to flatulate, to break wind, to fart
   • 2021 March 20, “Pastoor puft in mensen hun gezicht om ze te genezen [Pastor farts in people's faces to cure them]”, in GFC Nieuws‎, retrieved 21 March 2021:

     Een voorganger van een Zuid-Afrikaanse kerk beweert dat hij in de gezichten van zijn kerkbezoekers puft in een poging ze te genezen. De pastoor zit met zijn volle gewicht op de hoofden van de leden van zijn gemeenschap en puft vervolgens.

     A pastor of a South African church claims that he farts into the faces of his churchgoers in an attempt to cure them. The pastor sits with his full weight on the heads of the members of his community and then breaks wind.

• büffen (obsolete)

From Middle High German buffen, sharing an imitative Proto-Germanic base with Old English pyffan, Middle English puffen, English puff. Compare also Middle Low German puffen, buffen, biffen, German Low German buffen (“to puff”).

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puffen (weak, third-person singular present pufft, past tense puffte, past participle gepufft, auxiliary haben)

1. to puff
2. to nudge

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puffen

1. definite singular of puff