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pufflet

noun

Etymology

From puff + -let.

  1. inherited from *puf(f)-✻ — “to blow, puff”
  2. inherited from pyf — “a blast of wind, puff”
  3. inherited from puff
  4. suffixed as pufflet — “puff + let”

Definitions

  1. Something small and puffy.

    • a cheese pufflet; a pufflet of smoke
    • That scarce discernible pufflet of smoke and dust is a revolution.
    • Repeat with the remaining squares and line the pufflets up on the baking sheets, spacing them about 1/2 inch apart.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pufflet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA