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Puffer   /pˈəfər/   Listen
Puffer

noun
1.
Delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver.  Synonyms: blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab.
2.
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.  Synonyms: blowfish, globefish, pufferfish.



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"Puffer" Quotes from Famous Books



... been paid in the United States, within a score of years, for patent medicines. It would buy up a kingdom of respectable dimensions. So eager is this health-hunger, that it bites at bare hooks. The "advertising man" of Arnold's Globules offers his services as nostrum-puffer-general, and appeals to past success as proof of his abilities in this line. But Arnold's Globules will sell no whit the worse. Is the amiable Mr. Knox right, after all? Doubtless, we answer, the American organization is more easily disordered ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various

... despair of hearing from her again. . . . A VERY 'inquiring' correspondent desires to know 'whether there is any thing below a quartette, in music?—a pintette or a gillette?' He is also anxious, he says, to 'ascertain whether PUFFER HOPKINS is any relation to the pious poet who was in partnership in the psalm and hymn way with old Uncle STERNHOLD, a great many years ago.' Moreover, he considers it 'a little curious' that a black hen should lay a white egg; and states that he 'would give something ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 - Volume 23, Number 1 • Various

... of Chigwell School had prescribed in his deed of gift that the master should be "a good Poet, of a sound religion, neither Papal nor Puritan; of a good behaviour; of a sober and honest conversation; no tippler nor haunter of alehouses, no puffer of tobacco; and, above all, apt to teach and severe in his government." Here William studied Lilly's Latin and Cleonard's Greek Grammar, together with "cyphering and casting-up accounts," being a good scholar, we may guess, ...
— William Penn • George Hodges



Words linked to "Puffer" :   spiny puffer, Tetraodontidae, fugu, sea squab, plectognath, plectognath fish, puff, globefish, pufferfish, saltwater fish, tetrodotoxin, family Tetraodontidae



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