puffer

[puhf-er]

puff·er

[puhf-er]
noun
1.
a person or thing that puffs.
2.
Also called blowfish, globefish. any of various fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, the spines in the skin becoming erected: several species contain the potent nerve poison tetrodotoxin.

Origin:
1620–30; puff + -er1
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Puffer is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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puffer (ˈpʌfə)
 
n
1.  a person or thing that puffs
2.  Also called: globefish any marine plectognath fish of the family Tetraodontidae, having an elongated spiny body that can be inflated to form a globe

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puffer definition


  1. n.
    a cigar. : Can you imagine anyone smoking a puffer like that in a restaurant?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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