puffer

Other forms of puffer

plural

puffers·

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 puffer

What does puffer mean?

puffer 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 puffer?

puffer has 2 syllables: puf-fer. The stress falls on "puf". In IPA it is /ˈpʌfɚ/.

What is another word for puffer?

Close synonyms include blowfish, sea squab, pufferfish, pufferfish, blowfish. 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 puffer a common word?

puffer 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.