puff
Puff means:
- colloquially a brothel
- Laundry puff, see laundry basket
- in Switzerland chaos , disorder
- a medieval dice board game called Wurfzabel or Trictrac or its modern version of backgammon . The game's name Puff is the etymological origin of the meaning "brothel".
- Onomatopoeia with several forms of application, for example (mostly dull) blows
- an upholstered, closed stool as a seat or footstool (English pouffe , French pouf )
- Bausch, also padded laundry container (colloquial)
- Puff, the Magic Dragon , title character in a television series and chanson
- in biology a point where information is currently being read from the DNA of a polytene chromosome
- a CAD software for high frequency technology
Puff is the family name of the following people:
- Alois Puff (1890–1973), South Tyrolean politician
- Andreas Puff-Trojan (* 1960), Austrian author and literary scholar
- Ansgar Puff (* 1956), auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Cologne
- Christian Puff (1949–2013), Austrian botanist
- Helmut Puff (* 1961), German Germanist and historian
- Michael Puff (around 1400–1473), Austrian doctor and specialist book author
- Rudolf Gustav Puff (1808–1865), Lower Styrian high school professor and writer
- Theodor Puff (1927–1999), German football player
- Wilhelm Puff (1889–1983), German educator and writer
See also:
Wiktionary: Puff - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
