- present perfect progressive of puff (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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For two months, a Federal Trade Commission smoking machine has been puffing manfully on 59 different types and sizes of cigarettes representing 23 different brand names.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Germany has been puffing for threescore years; France smokes to a man.
From The Fitz-Boodle Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Germany has been puffing for three score years; France smokes to a man.
From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer