different between puffy vs windgall

English

From puff +? -y.

puffy (comparative puffier, superlative puffiest)

Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
Coming or exhaling in puffs.
Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 20:
  There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time.

wind +? gall

windgall (plural windgalls)

A puffy, typically fluid filled sac located just above the fetlock joint on a horse. Generally appearing on old or poorly kept horses.
- 1844, Alexandre Dumas (anon. translator), The Three Musketeers, Spark Publishing (2004) p. 12
  It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair in his tail, but not without windgalls on his legs...

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