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Puffed here means breathing quickly because you have just used a lot of energy — climbing , running for the bus. It is especially British and informal: “I’m puffed” or “puffed out.” American speakers more often say out of breath or . Though actually, the same spelling has other lives (puffed rice; cheeks puffed with air; puffed up with pride); this entry is the tired-breathing one. It feels spoken, not like a word for a medical file.
氣喘吁吁、喘不過氣(偏英式口語)
組成From puff + -ed: the verb puff (to blow air, to breathe hard) with the past / adjective ending -ed.
同家族的字
- puffthe verb this form comes from
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
puffedadj詞源 1/pʌft/
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Inflated or swollen.
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Gathered up into rounded ridges.
- The dress had puffed sleeves.
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Expanded by the use of steam.
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Consisting of a puff; exhaled or produced in puffs.
- the puffed smoke of a cigar
puffedadj詞源 2/pʌft/
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Synonym of puffed out (“panting from exercise”).
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。