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Puff
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puff
German
Pronunciation
de De-Puff.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de [pʰʊf]
Etymology 1
de thud
de, analogous to en buff.
Alternative forms
de Buf Buff
Noun
m,s:es,e:^e
de colloquial now _ regional thud, wham; light, harmless blow
Declension
m,s:es,e:^e
Descendants
hrx Puff blast 1
Etymology 2
de from the sound of the dice shaker hitting the ground.
Noun
n,s:es.sg
de Dice games de obsolete _ because hardly played a kind of dice game, anterior to backgammon
Declension
n,s:es.sg
Etymology 3
de brothel
From the dice game, from disguising idioms like „zum Puff gehen“ actually meaning going to a brothel.
Alternative forms
de P*ff censored
Noun
m:n,s:es,s
de Prostitution de colloquial brothel, whorehouse, bordello
de Bordell Freudenhaus Hurenhaus Laufhaus Prostitutionsstätte
Declension
m:n,s:es,s
Descendants
fr pouf brothel 1
hrx Puff brothel 1
Etymology 4
From the sense “thud, wham” understood as a whoosh forming a bulge, and in the sense “cushion seat” de fr pouf 1, the “laundry basket” apparently not present in French but extended in German from the broad sense in French of any textile heap.
Alternative forms
bulge in drapery de Puffe
Noun
m,s:es
de archaic puff, a bulge in drapery
de Bausch
1 45 Aus der senkrechten Bügelfalte empor, schien Arnheims Leib in der Gotteseinsamkeit der Bergriesen dazustehn; durch die Welle des Tals mit ihm vereint, stand auf der anderen Seite einsamkeitsüberglänzt Diotima, in ihrem Kleid der damaligen Mode, das an den Oberarmen kleine Puffen bildete, über dem Magen den Busen in eine kunstvoll gefaltete Weite auflöste und unter der Kniekehle sich wieder an die Wade legte.
de Furniture a kind of beanbag chair, a large cushion ball used as a seat, de Sitzpuff
de Sitzsack
de Sarah Waters Ute Leibmann 2016 Bastei Lübbe Köln 978-3-7325-2304-7 Fremde Gäste: Roman Du kannst dich auch aufn Puff setzen, so schmal wie du bist. 96 https://books.google.com/books?id=2OrkCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT96&dq=%20puff+setzen%20
de Containers laundry basket, de Wäschepuff
Declension
m,s:es
Etymology 5
de en puff, hence often italicized and written with minuscule in early occurrences, and probably also sharing the English pronunciation.
Noun
m,s:es,s
de genetics a chromosome puff
Declension
m,s:es,s
Further reading
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
hrx de Puff<id:thud> thud; wham.
Noun
m Puff
blast; pop loud, sudden sound
hrx Knall
Etymology 2
hrx de Puff<id:brothel> brothel.
Noun
f Puffe
brothel house of prostitution
References
127 2
hrx Prostitution Sounds