Puffer

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various prickly, often poisonous, chiefly marine fishes of the family Tetraodontidae that are capable of puffing up by swallowing water or air. Also called blowfish, swellfish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone or something that puffs.
  • n. Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to puff themselves up when in danger.
  • n. A car left idling to warm up, emitting steam from the rear.
  • n. A finite pattern that moves like a spaceship but leaves a trail of debris.
  • n. A manually-operated inhaler.
  • n. A train; a locomotive.
  • n. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
  • n. The common, or harbour, porpoise.
  • n. A kier used in dyeing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.
  • n. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
  • n.
  • n. Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon of the family Tetraodontidae; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. 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.
  • n. The common, or harbor, porpoise.
  • n. A kier.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who puffs; one who praises with exaggerated and interested commendation.
  • n. One who attends a sale by auction for the purpose of raising the price and exciting the eagerness of bidders to the advantage of the seller. Also called bonnet and whitebonnet.
  • n. A fish that swells or puffs up; specifically, any member of either of the plectognath families Tetrodontidæ and Diodontidæ, all of whose species, some eighty in number, have the habit of inflating themselves with air which they swallow; a swell-fish or globe-fish; a blower.
  • n. A porpoise or puffing-pig.
  • n. In weaving, a vat in which linen and cotton cloth is cleansed by boiling; a bucking-keir.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
  • n. delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
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    Variant
    blower    puff-fish    swellfish    globefish   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    by-bidder    kier    globefish    pufferfish   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bluffer    buffer    duffer    huffer    rougher    ruffer    snuffer    stuffer    suffer    tougher   
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    puffers    gefilte    bornouse    exacerbations    pompons    full-metal    fur seal    anadromous    haik    Euphorbia