Puff.
thud, wham; light, harmless blow
Meaning & usage
thud, wham; light, harmless blow
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic, analogous to English buff.
brothel, whorehouse, bordello
Where this word comes from
From the dice game, from disguising idioms like „zum Puff gehen“ actually meaning going to a brothel.
a chromosome puff
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from English puff, hence often italicized and written with minuscule in early occurrences, and probably also sharing the English pronunciation.
puff, a bulge in drapery
a kind of beanbag chair, a large cushion ball used as a seat, Sitzpuff
laundry basket, Wäschepuff
Where this word comes from
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.
a kind of dice game, anterior to backgammon
Where this word comes from
Onomatopoeic from the sound of the dice shaker hitting the ground.
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