Puff or puffs may refer to:

Science and technology

* Puff, a small quantity of gas or smoke in the

air An atmosphere () is a layer of gases that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object. A planet retains an atmosphere when the gravity is great and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. A stellar atmosph ...

** Puff, a light gust of

wind Wind is the natural movement of atmosphere of Earth, air or other gases relative to a planetary surface, planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heatin ...

Exhalation Exhalation (or expiration) is the flow of the breathing, breath out of an organism. In animals, it is the movement of air from the lungs out of the airways, to the external environment during breathing. This happens due to elastic properties of ...

Inhalation Inhalation (or inspiration) happens when air or other gases enter the lungs. Inhalation of air Inhalation of air, as part of the cycle of breathing, is a vital process for all human life. The process is autonomic (though there are exceptions ...

Puff model The Puff model is a volcanic ash tracking model developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It requires windfield data on a geographic grid covering the area over which ash may be dispersed. Representative ash particles are initiated at the vol ...

, volcanic ash tracking model developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks *

PUFFS (NetBSD) Pass-to-Userspace Framework File System (puffs) is a NetBSD kernel subsystem developed for running filesystems in userspace. It was added to NetBSD in the 5.0 release, and was ported to DragonFly BSD in the 3.2 release. Filesystem in Userspace ...

, a NetBSD kernel subsystem developed for running filesystems in userspace *

Chromosome puff A chromosome is a package of DNA containing part or all of the genetic material of an organism. In most chromosomes, the very long thin DNA fibers are coated with nucleosome-forming packaging proteins; in eukaryotic cells, the most importa ...

or "Puffs", diffused uncoiled regions of the polytene chromosome that are sites of RNA transcription *

Picofarad The farad (symbol: F) is the unit of electrical capacitance, the ability of a body to store an electrical charge, in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to 1 coulomb per volt (C/V). It is named after the English physicist Michae ...

(pF), a unit of capacitance sometimes pronounced "puff"

Foods

Cocoa Puffs Cocoa Puffs is an American brand of chocolate-flavored puffed grain breakfast cereal, manufactured by General Mills. Introduced in 1956, the cereal consists of small orbs of corn and rice flavored with cocoa. Cocoa Puffs have the same shape as ...

, a brand of chocolate-flavored puffed grain breakfast cereal, manufactured by General Mills *

Cream puff A profiterole (), ''chou à la crème'' (), also known alternatively as a cream puff (US), is a filled French choux pastry ball with a typically sweet and moist filling of whipped cream, custard, pastry cream, or ice cream. The puffs may be emb ...

or profiterole *

Curry puff A curry puff (; Jawi: ; ; , , ) is a snack of Southeast Asian origin. It is a small turnover containing a filling of curry, often of chicken and potatoes, in a fried or baked pastry shell. The consistency of the curry is quite thick to prev ...

Puff pastry Puff pastry, also known as , is a light, flaky pastry, its base dough () composed of wheat flour and water. Butter or other solid fat () is then layered into the dough. The dough is repeatedly rolled and folded, rested, re-rolled and folded, encas ...

Puffed grain Puffed grains are grains that have been expanded ("puffed") through processing. They have been made for centuries with the simplest methods like popping popcorn. Modern puffed grains are often created using high temperature, pressure, or extrus ...

Cheese puffs Cheese puffs, cheese curls, cheese balls, cheese ball puffs, cheesy puffs, or corn curls are a puffed corn snack, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders. They are manufactured by extruding heated corn dough through a die th ...

, extruded corn snacks (and other flavors) **

Sugar Puffs Honey Monster Puffs is a breakfast cereal manufactured in the United Kingdom from puffed wheat sweetened with sugar and honey, fortified with vitamins and iron. The cereal was originally sold as Sugar Puffs, but was re-branded in 2014. It wa ...

, a brand of sugar-frosted puffed grain breakfast cereal

Military

* Passive Underwater Fire Control Feasibility System, a US Navy submarine sonar system *

Douglas AC-47 Spooky The Douglas AC-47 ( "Puff, the Magic Dragon") was the first in a series of fixed-wing gunships developed by the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. It was designed to provide more firepower than light and medium ground-attack aircra ...

(nickname "Puff, the Magic Dragon"), a US Air Force ground-attack aircraft

People with the name

Puff Daddy Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Diddy, and formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, and record executive. Born in Harlem and raised in Mount Vernon, Combs worked as a ...

or Sean Combs (born 1969), rapper *

Puff Johnson Ewanya "Puff" Johnson (December 10, 1972 – June 24, 2013) was an American R&B singer-songwriter. Born in Detroit Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situat ...

(1972–2013), American singer *

Puff Kuo Puff Kuo (; born 30 June 1988) is a Taiwanese actress, singer, model, and was the youngest member of Taiwanese girl group Dream Girls until their disbandment. In 2008, Kuo was scouted by talent agents and in 2010, she joined girl group Dream G ...

(born 1988), Taiwanese singer and actress

Fictional characters

* Puff, a character in Peter, Paul and Mary's 1963 song "

Puff, the Magic Dragon "Puff, the Magic Dragon" (or just "Puff") is an American folk song written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary from a poem by Leonard Lipton. It was made popular by Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1962 recording released in January 1963. Lipt ...

" * Mr. Puff, a character in Sheridan's 1779 play ''

The Critic ''The Critic'' is an American Adult animation, adult animated sitcom revolving around the life of New York film critic Jay Sherman, voiced by Jon Lovitz. It was created by writing partners Al Jean and Mike Reiss, who had previously worked as w ...

'' *

Mrs. Puff Mrs. Penelope "Poppy" Puff is a fictional character in Nickelodeon's animated television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' and every film based on the franchise. Voiced by Mary Jo Catlett, Mrs. Puff debuted in the season one episode "Boating Sc ...

, a character in the television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' * Puff, a pet cat in the

Dick and Jane ''Dick and Jane'' are the two protagonists created by Zerna Sharp for a series of basal readers written by William S. Gray to teach children to read. The characters first appeared in the ''Elson-Gray Readers'' in 1930 and continued in a subseq ...

textbook series

Other uses

Puff piece Puffery is undue or exaggerated praise. Puffery serves to "puff up" what is being described. In law, puffery is usually invoked as a defense argument: it identifies general praising speech, typically produced by a seller, which is not expected ...

or puffery, exaggerated advertising claims *

Puff sleeve Puff or puffs may refer to: Science and technology * 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 Fairb ...

* Powder puff, face-powder applicator *

Puffs (facial tissue) Procter & Gamble (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation with a portfolio of brands. Brands with net sales of more than US$1 billion annually As of 2015, the company stated it owned the following brands with net annual sal ...

, 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