Puff

Etymology 1
, analogous to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  thud, wham; light, harmless blow

Etymology 2
from the sound of the dice shaker hitting the ground.

Noun

 * 1)   a kind of dice game, anterior to backgammon

Etymology 3
From the dice game, from disguising idioms like „zum Puff gehen“ actually meaning going to a brothel.

Noun

 * 1)   brothel, whorehouse, bordello

Etymology 4
From the sense “thud, wham” understood as a whoosh forming a bulge, and in the sense “cushion seat”, the “laundry basket” apparently not present in French but extended in German from the broad sense in French of any textile heap.

Noun

 * 1)  puff, a bulge in drapery
 * 2)  a kind of beanbag chair, a large cushion ball used as a seat,
 * 3)  laundry basket,
 * 1)  a kind of beanbag chair, a large cushion ball used as a seat,
 * 2)  laundry basket,
 * 1)  laundry basket,
 * 1)  laundry basket,

Etymology 5
, hence often italicized and written with minuscule in early occurrences, and probably also sharing the English pronunciation.

Noun

 * 1)  a chromosome puff