puffer
pronunciation
How to pronounce puffer in British English:
UK [ˈpʌfə(r)]
How to pronounce puffer in American English:
US ['pʌfər]
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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
- puffer (n.)
- 1620s, agent noun from puff (v.). As "one who praises or extols," from 1736. As a type of fish that inflates itself in defense, from 1814.
Example
- 1. The poison , tetrodotoxin , is extracted from puffer fish .
- 2. My son has asthma , and he must have his puffer .
- 3. Or how about a puffer vest with deep armholes to wear over your pinstripes ?
- 4. Among them , puffer fish , the fish market system , the duration of only 20 days , slightly longer time to market some of saury .
- 5. A dead puffer fish lies on the seashore of naic , cavite , south-west of manila , in the philippines .