puffer
Americannoun
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a person or thing that puffs.
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Also called blowfish, globefish. any of various fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, the spines in the skin becoming erected: several species contain the potent nerve poison tetrodotoxin.
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a warm and lightweight jacket, coat, or vest with sections separated by quilted stitching and filled with down or synthetic fibers.
noun
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a person or thing that puffs
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Also called: globefish. any marine plectognath fish of the family Tetraodontidae, having an elongated spiny body that can be inflated to form a globe
Etymology
Origin of puffer
Example Sentences
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Puffer jackets cut like dresses and huge parkas topped with XXL fake fur hats completed the look of the "hot as ice" team, as one jumper had it.
From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026
Tracy said: "It is also where Steve proposed to me so it seemed very apt to have the wedding on the Puffer course."
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024
Wood’s wife, Stacie Wood, serves as a pastor, and three women were ordained in 2021: Liz Puffer, Cynthia Petty and Katie Edwards.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2023
In May 2021, the church ordained Liz Puffer, Cynthia Petty and Katie Edwards as staff pastors.
From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2022
Gilchrist abandoned the Sunday meetings and when Mr. Damon asked him for his reason he said he wouldn't have his religion strained through old Puffer Kimball.
From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by Boutwell, George S.
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