puffer
/ˈpʌfɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something that puffs.
noun
Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger.
noun
A manually-operated inhaler.
noun
A Clyde puffer, a kind of small ship.
noun
An insulated puffy jacket, such as a down jacket.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Might be interesting to see if the debris from this puffer can be suppressed somehow -- assuming somebody hasn't already done that, but I don't see any sign of previous attempts."
- "The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes."
Etymology
Etymology tree English puff Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English puffer From puff + -er. The cellular automata definition is a clipping of puffer train.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpʌfɚ/
- British English: /ˈpʌfə/