Puff

Template:Sister project 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 Fairbanks
• PUFFS (NetBSD), a NetBSD kernel subsystem developed for running filesystems in userspace
• Chromosome puff or "Puffs", diffused uncoiled regions of the polytene chromosome that are sites of RNA transcription
• Picofarad (pF), a unit of capacitance sometimes pronounced "puff"

Foods

• Cocoa Puffs, a brand of chocolate-flavored puffed grain breakfast cereal, manufactured by General Mills
• Cream puff or profiterole
• Curry puff
• Puff pastry
• Puffed grain
  • Cheese puffs, extruded corn snacks (and other flavors)
  • Sugar Puffs, 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 (nickname "Puff, the Magic Dragon"), a US Air Force ground-attack aircraft

People with the name

• Puff Daddy or Sean Combs (born 1969), rapper
• Puff Johnson (1972–2013), American singer
• Puff Kuo (born 1988), Taiwanese singer and actress

Fictional characters

• Puff, a character in Peter, Paul and Mary's 1963 song "Puff, the Magic Dragon"
• Mr. Puff, a character in Sheridan's 1779 play The Critic
• Mrs. Puff, a character in the television series SpongeBob SquarePants
• Puff, a pet cat in the Dick and Jane textbook series

Other uses

• Puff piece or puffery, exaggerated advertising claims
• Puff sleeve
• Powder puff, face-powder applicator
• Puffs (facial tissue), 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 Kenny Lynch

See also

• Pouf or pouffe
• Poof (disambiguation)
• Puff adder (disambiguation)
• Puffer (disambiguation)
• Puffy (disambiguation)
• Puff the Magic Dragon (disambiguation)
• The Powerpuff Girls, an American superhero animated television series
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