puffy

Etymology

From puff + -y.

adj

1. Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
2. Coming or exhaling in puffs.
   puffy breath
   A puffy fat man in a tracksuit came jogging around the corner.
3. Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.
   There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time. 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 20