Puff

== German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [pʰʊf] === Etymology 1 === Onomatopoeic, analogous to English buff. ==== Alternative forms ==== Buf, Buff ==== Noun ==== Puff m (strong, genitive Puffs or Puffes, plural Puffe or Püffe) (colloquial, now regional) thud, wham; light, harmless blow ===== Declension ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Hunsrik: Puff (“blast”) === Etymology 2 === Onomatopoeic from the sound of the dice shaker hitting the ground. ==== Noun ==== Puff n (strong, genitive Puffs or Puffes, no plural) (obsolete because hardly played) a kind of dice game, anterior to backgammon ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 3 === From the dice game, from disguising idioms like „zum Puff gehen“ actually meaning going to a brothel. ==== Alternative forms ==== P*ff (censored) ==== Noun ==== Puff m or n (strong, genitive Puffs or Puffes, plural Puffs) (colloquial) brothel, whorehouse, bordello Synonyms: Bordell, Freudenhaus, Hurenhaus, Laufhaus, Prostitutionsstätte ===== Declension ===== ===== Descendants ===== → French: pouf (“brothel”) (semantic loan) → Hunsrik: Puff (“brothel”) === Etymology 4 === From the sense “thud, wham” understood as a whoosh forming a bulge, and in the sense “cushion seat” semantic loan from French pouf, 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): Puffe ==== Noun ==== Puff m (strong, genitive Puffs or Puffes, plural Puffe) (archaic) puff, a bulge in drapery Synonym: Bausch a kind of beanbag chair, a large cushion ball used as a seat, Sitzpuff Hypernym: Sitzsack laundry basket, Wäschepuff ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 5 === Borrowed from English puff, hence often italicized and written with minuscule in early occurrences, and probably also sharing the English pronunciation. ==== Noun ==== Puff m (strong, genitive Puffs or Puffes, plural Puffs) (genetics) a chromosome puff ===== Declension ===== === Further reading === “Puff”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Puff” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Puff” in Duden online == Hunsrik == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpʰuf/ Rhymes: -uf Syllabification: Puff === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from German Puff (“thud; wham”). ==== Noun ==== Puff m (plural Puff) blast; pop (loud, sudden sound) Synonym: Knall === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from German Puff (“brothel”). ==== Noun ==== Puff f (plural Puffe) brothel (house of prostitution) === References === Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Puff”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 127, column 2