English
puffhead
From puff (“cannabis”) + -head.
Formed from puff ‘cannabis’ + -head
Proto-West Germanic *puf(f)- ‘to blow, puff’
Old English pyf ‘a blast of wind, puff’
Middle English puff
English puff
Today it means
noun A person who smokes cannabis regularly.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “puffhead”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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