PUFFER

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.

2.
n.

One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. Bouvier.

3.
n.

Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish.

4.
n.

The common, or harbor, porpoise.

5.
n.

A kier.


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