puffing > define
noun
- Blowing tobacco smoke out into the air.
- usage: "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing"
- An act of forcible exhalation.
verb
- Smoke and exhale strongly.
- usage: "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"
- Suck in or take (air. )
- usage: "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
- Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted.
- usage: "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
- Make proud or conceited.
- usage: "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
- synonyms: puff
- Praise extravagantly.
- usage: "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
- Speak in a blustering or scornful manner.
- usage: "A puffing kind of man"
- synonyms: puff
- (v.) ()
- Blow hard and loudly.
- usage: "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Exaggerated or superlative comments or opinions not made as representations of fact and thus are not grounds for misrepresentation, such as, "This property is a real good buy." One test used is whether a reasonable person would have relied on the statement. A statement such as, "The apartment has a fantastic view, " is' puffing' because the prospective buyer can clearly assess the view for himself or herself, whereas a statement such as "The apartment has a fantastic view of the lake" when in fact all its windows face the street, would be misrepresentation. (See caveat emptor, misrepresentation).