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/pˈəfər/ Listen

noun

Puffer n.

One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.

One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.

(Zool.)

(a)

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.

(b)

The common, or harbor, porpoise.

(Dyeing) A kier.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Puffer" Quotes from Famous Books

... snuffer, Though no puffer, You may guess what pangs he'd suffer In his journey through a snow-drift, Visiting ...

— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings

... carried at once to his room and Dr. Puffer, the eminent surgeon was sent for. It was found that he was shot through the breast and through the abdomen. Other aid was summoned, but the wounds were mortal, and Col Selby expired in an hour, in pain, but his mind was clear to the ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... fish—among them that constant delight of the landsman, the puffer, which, when disturbed, rapidly inflates itself, rising to the surface of the water until it becomes apparently so large a mouthful that its would-be devourer is fooled into believing the morsel too big ...

— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler