Vocabulary : Puffer to Pug

Puffer : One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation. ;; One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. ;; Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish. ;; The common, or harbor, porpoise. ;; A kier.
Puffery : The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.
Puffin : An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot. ;; The puffball. ;; A sort of apple.
Puffiness : The quality or state of being puffy.
Puffing : of Puff ;; a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.

Puffingly : In a puffing manner; with vehement breathing or shortness of breath; with exaggerated praise.
Puff-leg : Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
Puff-legged : Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
Puffy : Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. ;; Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
Pug : A footprint; a track; as of a boar. ;; To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc. ;; To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2. ;; Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic. ;; A pug mill. ;; An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. ;; A name for a monkey. ;; A name for a fox. ;; An intimate; a crony; a dear one. ;; Chaff; the refuse of grain. ;; A prostitute. ;; One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog. ;; Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.

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