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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