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Puff may refer to:
Science and technology
[edit]- Puff, a small quantity of gas or smoke in the air
- Puff, a light gust of wind
- Exhalation
- Inhalation
- Puff model, volcanic ash tracking model developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
- PUFFS (NetBSD), a NetBSD kernel subsystem developed for running filesystems in userspace
- Chromosome puff or "Puffs", diffused uncoiled regions of the polytene chromosome that are sites of RNA transcription
- Picofarad (pF), a unit of capacitance sometimes pronounced "puff"
Foods
[edit]- Cocoa Puffs, a brand of chocolate-flavored puffed grain breakfast cereal, manufactured by General Mills
- Cream puff or profiterole
- Curry puff
- Puff pastry
- Puffed grain
- Cheese puffs, extruded corn snacks (and other flavors)
- Sugar Puffs, a brand of sugar-frosted puffed grain breakfast cereal
Military
[edit]- Passive Underwater Fire Control Feasibility System, a US Navy submarine sonar system
- Douglas AC-47 Spooky (nickname "Puff, the Magic Dragon"), a US Air Force ground-attack aircraft
People with the name
[edit]- Puffy AmiYumi, Japanese rock duo
- Puff Daddy or Sean Combs (born 1969), rapper
- Puff Johnson (1972–2013), American singer
- Puff Kuo (born 1988), Taiwanese singer and actress
Fictional characters
[edit]- Puff, a character in Peter, Paul and Mary's 1963 song "Puff, the Magic Dragon"
- Mr. Puff, a character in Sheridan's 1779 play The Critic
- Mrs. Puff, a character in the television series SpongeBob SquarePants
- Puff, a pet cat in the Dick and Jane textbook series
Other uses
[edit]- Puff piece or puffery, exaggerated advertising claims
- Puff sleeve
- Powder puff, face-powder applicator
- Puffs (facial tissue), an American brand of facial tissue from Procter & Gamble
- Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, a 2015 play which is a pastiche of the Harry Potter book series
- "Puff", a 1962 song by Kenny Lynch
See also
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- Pouf or pouffe
- Poof (disambiguation)
- Puff adder (disambiguation)
- Puffer (disambiguation)
- Puffy (disambiguation)
- Puff the Magic Dragon (disambiguation)
- The Powerpuff Girls, an American superhero animated television series
- All pages with titles beginning with Puff
- All pages with titles containing Puff