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puffer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun puffer has 2 senses
- puffer(n = noun.food) blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab - delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver; Array is a part of blowfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfish
- puffer(n = noun.animal) blowfish, globefish, pufferfish - any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers; Array is a kind of plectognath, plectognath fish
is a kind of saltwater fish
has particulars: fugu
is a member of family tetraodontidae, tetraodontidae
has parts: blowfish, puffer, pufferfish, sea squab
Derived form verb puff7
CIDE DICTIONARY
puffer, n.
- One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation. [1913 Webster]
- One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
- Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of
Tetrodon andDiodon of the familyTetraodontidae ; -- called alsoblower ,puff-fish ,swellfish , andglobefish . They are highly poisonous due to the presence of glands containing a potent toxin,tetrodotoxin . Nevertheless they are eaten as a delicacy in Japan, being prepared by specially licensed chefs who remove the poison glands. [1913 Webster] - A kier. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
puffer, n.
1 a person or thing that puffs.
2 = puff-puff.
1 a person or thing that puffs.
2 = puff-puff.
Idiom
puffer-fish = globe-fish.
ROGET THESAURUS
puffer
Flatterer
N flatterer, adulator, eulogist, euphemist, optimist, encomiast, laudator, whitewasher, toady, toadeater, sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant, flaneur, proneur, puffer, touter, claqueur, clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work, parasite, hanger-on, yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser, brown-noser, teacher's pet, pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.
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