G9684 — φυσάω

1. transitive to puff or blow up, distend , (Aristophanes Comicus); of bag-pipers, (Aristophanes Comicus); φ. τὰς γνάθους to puff them out , (Demosthenes Orator):—;Pass. to be inflated , ἡ γαστὴρ ἐπεφύσητό μοι (Aristophanes Comicus) 2. metaphorically to puff one up, make him vain , and so to cheat , (Demosthenes Orator):—;Pass. to be puffed up , ἐπί τινι at a thing, (Xenophon Historicus) 3. to blow up, kindle a fire: but also 4. to blow out, extinguish , τὴν λαμπάδα (Aristophanes Comicus) 5. to blow out, spurt out , (Sophocles Tragicus) 6. to blow a wind-instrument, (Euripides) (ML)