puffer

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: puff=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

puffer, n. 

•  One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.  [1913 Webster]
•  One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.  Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon of the family Tetraodontidae; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. They are highly poisonous due to the presence of glands containing a potent toxin, tetrodotoxin. Nevertheless they are eaten as a delicacy in Japan, being prepared by specially licensed chefs who remove the poison glands.  [1913 Webster]
•  A kier.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

puffer, n.
1 a person or thing that puffs.
2 = puff-puff.

Idiom

puffer-fish = globe-fish.

ROGET THESAURUS

puffer

Flatterer

N flatterer, adulator, eulogist, euphemist, optimist, encomiast, laudator, whitewasher, toady, toadeater, sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant, flaneur, proneur, puffer, touter, claqueur, clawback, earwig, doer of dirty work, parasite, hanger-on, yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser, brown-noser, teacher's pet, pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.