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Word entry · 6 letters

puffer

Best crossword clue

"Inflating fish"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpʌfɚ/Part of speech nounSorted effpruStarts with PEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A fish that can inflate its body when threatened.

Word origin

From puff + -er.

Used in a sentence

  • For years he'd made relatively light of it, referring to the little inhaler he had to use as his ‘puffer’.
  • Cicero in his Offices declares his opinion , that a vendor ought not to appoint a puffer to raise the price
  • This is the next best thing, which is a pseudo-puffer made by converting a stream of spaceships into puffer output using several c/3 spaceships.

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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues

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