blowfish

Other forms of blowfish

plural

blowfishes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blowfish

What does blowfish mean?

blowfish means "delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blowfish?

blowfish has 2 syllables: blow-fish. The stress falls on "blow". In IPA it is /ˈbloʊfɪʃ/.

What is another word for blowfish?

Close synonyms include sea squab, puffer, pufferfish, puffer, pufferfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blowfish a common word?

blowfish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.