blowfish
pronunciation
How to pronounce blowfish in British English:
UK ['bləʊfɪʃ]
How to pronounce blowfish in American English:
US ['bloʊˌfɪʃ]
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- Noun:
- delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
- 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
Word Origin
- blowfish (n.)
- also blow-fish, 1862, American English, from blow (v.1) + fish (n.). Then he described another odd product of the bay, that was known as the blow-fish, and had the power of inflating himself with air when taken out of the water. ["The Young Nimrods in North America," New York, 1881]
Example
- 1. Colorful blowfish take you on an exciting underwater race .
- 2. " Hey , blowfish , suck on my neck ! "
- 3. All blowfish produce the poison .
- 4. Those apocryphal tales about the hypertoxic blowfish prized by japanese gastronomes ?
- 5. For more than six decades , dicing blowfish in tokyo has been the preserve of a small band of strictly regulated and licensed chefs , usually in exclusive restaurants .