powder puff

IPA: pˈaʊdɝpʌf

A ball or pad of soft material used for the application of cosmetic powder to the face.
Any of certain species of genus Calliandra.

powderpuff

IPA: pˈaʊdɝpˈʌf

Being or relating to a division of a traditionally male sport that is reserved for females.

IPA: pˈaʊdɝpˈʌf

Alternative form of powder puff [A ball or pad of soft material used for the application of cosmetic powder to the face.]

Paper hats with red accents and powder-puff balls top the models.
It's like watching Peyton Manning play in a powder-puff football game.
"The place stinks like a den of skunks," Mrs. Davis observed, pausing from dabbing the end of her nose with a powder-puff.
The NFL did, and Anderson says the intense reaction to the crackdown, that the NFL will become a powder-puff league, is ridiculous.
In his senior year, the powder-puff football tournament that he launched, with the help of the university's sororities and fraternities, raised $340,000 for charity.
To the naked eye, the man who has repeatedly run through India looks the same as the one who floated up harmless powder-puff fast-medium against England a year ago, but these days he bowls with more pace, bite and venom.
The 80mph merchants have been an endangered species since Sarfraz Nawaz and his disciples revolutionised swing bowling, making orthodox movement and the conventionally seductive speed at which it was bowled seem powder-puff and antiquated by comparison.
• Interactive guide to all the Ashes venues• Sign up now for our weekly email The Spin• How to stay awake during the Tests• Follow our daily blog throughout the AshesEven the phoney war, that period when local comment bounces between the barbed and the patronising, has been powder-puff stuff, done for the sake of it rather than with any real malice.