Puffer

Definition: Puffer

Puffer

Noun

1. Delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver.

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.

Date "puffer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Domain	Definition
Occupations	Slides material back and forth over heated, metal, ball-shaped form to smooth and press portions of garments that cannot be satisfactorily pressed with flat presser or hand iron. May use hand iron to complete pressing of garment. (references)
Slang in 1811	PUFF, or PUFFER. One who bids at auctions, not with an intent to buy, but only to raise the price of the lot; for which purpose many are hired by the proprietor of the goods on sale. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Puffer

Synonyms: blowfish (n), globefish (n), sea squab (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Flatterer	Toady, toadeater; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur, proneur; puffer, touter, claqueur; clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on; (servility).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Puffer

English words defined with "puffer": Rabbit fish ♦ Swellfish. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Puffer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (buffer, buffers, bumper, fender).

Domain	Title
Books	My Puffer Train (reference) Puffer Ahoy! (reference) Rainbow Fish Puffer Cries Shark (reference) The career of Puffer Hopkins (reference) The Clyde puffer (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Spheroides testudineus (Linnaeus). Puffer; Tamboril. In: "The Fishes of Porto Rico", by Barton Warren Evermann and Millard Caleb Marsh. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XX for 1900. First Part. P. 350, Plate 41. Credit: Fisheries.		A pelagic puffer caught by a dipnet in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Credit: Fisheries.
	Nested pipes, one within another, provide more secure habitat for these three species of black trigger fish, Melichthys vidua, spiny puffer, Diodon hystrix, and squirrel fish, Myripristis sp. yellow tang surgeon fish, Zebrasoma flavescens. This type of. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.		Large school of the spiny puffer, Diodon hystrix, in the deepest part of the artificial reef at approximately 90 ft. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.
	Spiny puffer, a porcupine fish - Diodon hystrix Observed on a night dive. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.		Berthed at the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, Seattle, Washington, circa April 1949. She had recently attached to the Center to replace USS PC-786 in training Seattle-area Naval Reservists. Other ships assigned to the Seattle facility's "fleet" included USS Rombach (DE-364), USS Puffer (SS-268) and two small landing craft. Photograph released for publication by 13th Naval District PIO on 13 April 1949. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Puffer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "Puffer" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	85%	17	85,106
Noun (proper)	15%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "puffer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Puffer	Last name	1,000	15,700
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "puffer": spiny puffer. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "puffer": puffer-fish.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "puffer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		рекламаджия (showman), риба която може да се издува, човек който пуфти, влакче (puff-puff, ride), влак (puff-puff, road, train), параходче (steamboat), параход (boat, ship, steamer, steamship). (various references)

Chinese		吹风者. (various references)

Danish		nordlig kuglefisk (Northern puffer, swellfish), brostoette (dental puffer). (various references)

Dutch		Noordelijke regelvis (Northern puffer, swellfish), noordelijke kogelvis (Northern puffer, swellfish), Noordelijke koffervis (Northern puffer, swellfish). (various references)

Finnish		pohjanpallokala (Northern puffer, swellfish). (various references)

French		poisson-globe. (various references)

German		puffpuff (puff-puff), Paffer (puffers). (various references)

Greek		φυσιών (puffy), είδοσ ιχθύοσ (bullhead). (various references)

Italian		fumatore (smoker, smokers). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		河豚　 (blow fish, fugu, puffer fish), 河豚 (blow fish, fugu, globefish, puffer fish, swellfish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふぐ (blow fish, cripple, deformity, disability, distortion, emergency, fugu, globefish, puffer fish, swellfish). (various references)

Manx		sheideyder (blower). (various references)

Pig Latin		ufferpay

Portuguese		peixe-bola. (various references)

Spanish		locomotora (engine, loco, locomotive, railway engine), fumador (chain smoker, smoker, smokers). (various references)

Swedish		fläckig blåsfisk (Northern puffer, swellfish). (various references)

Turkish		püfleyen, lokomotif (engine, iron horse, loco, locomotive, locomotive engine, steam engine), kirpi balığı (globefish, porcupine fish), aşırı öven kimse, üfleyen (puffy), öve öve bitiremeyen kimse. (various references)

Ukrainian		козубенька. (various references)

Vietnamese		người tâng bốc láo, người quảng cáo láo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Sphoeroides, Sphoeroides maculatus, Sphoeroides spp., Tetraodontidae. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "puffer": pufferies, puffers, puffery. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Puffer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Huffer, Jufer, Kuffer, Paffard, paufer, pefer, Peffer, piaffe, Piffa, piffaro, piffee, piffer, poffer, pofter, Ppfe, puffe, puffey, pufyer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "puffer" (pronounced pu"fer)
3	-u" f er	buffer, duffer, rougher, snuffer, stuffer, suffer, tougher.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-f-p-r-u"
	-1 letter: ruffe.
	-2 letters: puff, pure, ruff.
	-3 letters: eff, fer, feu, fur, per, pur, ref, rep, rue.
	-4 letters: ef, er, pe, re, up.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-f-p-r-u"
	+1 letter: puffers, puffery, puffier.
	+3 letters: creampuff, pufferies.
	+4 letters: creampuffs.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
puffer fish	383	eight figure fish puffer	10
puffer	75	boat puffer sail	9
freshwater puffer fish	44	leopard puffer	9
puffer fish picture	28	fish green puffer spotted	8
porcupine puffer fish	25	fish leopard puffer	8
porcupine puffer	21	dog face puffer	7
dwarf fish puffer	20	reeths puffer high school	7
dwarf puffer	19	puffer red	7
puffer sweiven	17	hubbard puffer	6
green puffer spotted	16	puffer reeths school	6
freshwater puffer	14	care fish puffer	6
fresh water puffer fish	14	puffer fish information	6
8 figure puffer	12	fresh puffer water	6
reeths puffer	12	a photo of a puffer fish	6
amf puffer	12	8 figure fish puffer	5
fahaka puffer	12	green puffer	5
spotted puffer	11	dogface fish puffer	4
eight figure puffer	11	fish puffer sale	4
spotted puffer fish	10	aquarium fish puffer	4
dogface puffer	10	a pic of puffer fish	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Puffer

Definition: Puffer

Puffer

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