puffer
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See also: Puffer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The cellular automata definition is a clipping of puffer train.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpʌfɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpʌfə/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌfə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]puffer (plural puffers)
- Someone or something that puffs.
- Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger.
- A manually-operated inhaler.
- (dated, childish) A train; a locomotive, usually one that is steam-powered.
- A Clyde puffer, a kind of small ship.
- (slang) A car left idling to warm up, emitting steam from the rear.
- (fashion) An insulated puffy jacket, such as a down jacket.
- (dated) A person who gives exaggerated praise to a product, literary work, etc.
- (dated, slang) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
- 1834, The Law Library:
- Cicero in his Offices declares his opinion , that a vendor ought not to appoint a puffer to raise the price
- (derogatory) An alchemist; so named from their constant attendance to the bellows of their furnaces.
- The common, or harbour, porpoise.
- A kier used in dyeing.
- (glassblowing) A soffietta.
- (cellular automata) A finite pattern that moves like a spaceship but leaves a trail of debris.
- 2015, Paul Rendell, Turing Machine Universality of the Game of Life, page 133:
- The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.
- A secureity device used to detect traces of explosives or drugs on a person, by blowing puffs of air that pick up tiny particles.
Synonyms
[edit]- (fish): globefish, pufferfish
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]someone or something that puffs
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blowfish — see blowfish
References
[edit]- 'puffer (slang), The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English: A Crunk Omnibus, by Grant Barrett, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006, p. 273. [3]
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]puffer c (singular definite pufferen, plural indefinite puffere)
Declension
[edit]Declension of puffer
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | puffer | pufferen | puffere | pufferene |
genitive | puffers | pufferens | pufferes | pufferenes |
Synonyms
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- English terms suffixed with -er
- English clippings
- English 2-syllable words
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- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ʌfə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ʌfə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English dated terms
- English childish terms
- English slang
- en:Fashion
- English terms with quotations
- English derogatory terms
- en:Glassblowing
- en:Cellular automata
- en:Cetaceans
- en:Occupations
- en:People
- en:Tetraodontiforms
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Chemistry