puffern.

Brit.

/ˈpʌfə/, U.S.

/ˈpəfər/

Forms: in sense 3e chiefly with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: puff v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < puff v. + -er suffix¹.In sense 3e after German Puffer (1611 or earlier; compare puff n. 1c).

†1. With up. Something that causes a person to swell with pride, vanity, etc. Cf. puff v. 7a. Obsolete.

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1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 186 It [sc. cloistering from the common] becomes the puffer vp to pride in the recluse, and the direction to disdaine, by dreaming still of bettership.

a1787 J. Brown Sel. Remains (1789) 129 My knowledge but an accursed puffer up! A murderer of my soul!

†2.

a. A person employed in padding or stuffing anything. Obsolete.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Embourreur, a stuffer, bumbaster or puffer up of things with flocks, etc.

1742 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lxv. 280 He..should keep no Company, but that of Tailors, Wig-puffers, and Milaners.

b. A teacher who specializes in instilling knowledge quickly and efficiently; a crammer. Obsolete. rare.

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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > crammer

feeder1766

puffer1786

crammer1814

grinder1814

cram1861

cram-coach1885

1786 R. Cumberland Observer I. xxxviii. 270 The Polishing Puffers..who are endowed with the happy faculty of instilling arts and sciences into their disciples, like fixed air into a vapid menstruum.

a. A person who or thing which puffs out air, smoke, etc., or who puffs into something; esp. a smoker of tobacco.

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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities

Plutoc1330

Herculesc1369

Proteusa1425

Tellusc1425

chaosa1522

grace1538

terminus1565

victory1569

Hymena1593

harvest queen1598

Hades1599

aurora1610

puffer1615

Egeria1624

hour1637

Hygeia1737

Kore1844

Nike1846

vintage-god1873

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > smoker

tobacchian1597

tobacco-taker1599

tobacconist1600

puffer1615

tobacco-fellow1616

tobacconer1616

smoker1617

whiffler1617

fume-gallant1621

whiffera1627

funker1691

tobacco-smoker1848

tobacconalian1854

nicotian1872

tobaccophil1882

coffin dodger1891

tobaccoite1898

tobacco-whiffer-

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια x. vi. 744 Lippes haue nine [muscles],..and the ninth is called Buccinator or the Puffer.

1629 S. Harsnet Rules Chigwell School in Victoria Hist. County Essex (1907) II. 544 [The Latin schoolmaster was to be] a man..of a sober and honest conversation, no tipler nor Haunter of ale houses, no Puffer of Tobacco.

1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 8 Jove..made him [sc. Æolus] King of all the Puffers.

1699 E. Ward London Spy I. ix. 8 Leaving us to Chatter with our Drolling Mundungus Puffer.

1730 T. Cooke Candidates for Bays 5 Next Harlequin L——, with a Mask and a Dance, And a Horn-Puffer, newly come over from France.

1860 R. S. Surtees Plain or Ringlets? x. 23 Young gentlemen must smoke now-a-days, whether they like it or not. Presently the puffers were seen straggling away.

1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 730 Both..pishers and puffers..being noisily wrong.

1990 Atlantic May 113/1 Alongside much of the Austrian Danube runs a paved bicycle path down which..groups of corpulent puffers pedal on bicycles.

1997 Sunday Post (Glasgow) 4 May 7/1 I even got a perverse enjoyment from my volcanic smoker's cough, swapping early-morning cough anecdotes with fellow puffers.

b. A boat or vehicle powered by steam; spec. (chiefly Scottish) a small steamboat used for carrying cargo in coastal waters.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine > cargo-steamer

packet steamer1842

puffer1849

smoke-jack1892

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > of other construction or rig

buss?a1400

fly-boat1583

caramoussal1587

penteconter1784

galliot1794

puffer1849

billyboy1855

York boat1864

smoke-jack1892

Panamax1972

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > steam-powered > traction engine

steam-horse1815

puffer1849

traction-engine1859

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine

steamboat1787

steamship1819

smoker1825

steamer1825

steam-vessel1825

smoke-boat1867

S.S.1868

puffer1901

1849 J. P. Townsend Rambles New S. Wales 252 The harbour swarmed with vessels of every description, from large steamers to little ‘puffers’, or steam-boats that would hardly hold a dozen people.

1901 Scotsman 19 Dec. 5/4 One of the crew of the puffer had fallen overboard.

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 7 Trains are still called puff-puffs or puffers as against the American onomatope choo-choo.

1974 Times 7 Dec. 3/2 Mr Alan Pegler bought the majestic old LNER puffer [sc. the Flying Scotsman] in 1962.

2002 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 11 Aug. 4 Queen of the party was the Spartan, the last operating puffer to be built in Scotland and 60 years young this year.

c. U.S. The common porpoise, Phocoena phocoena. Cf. puff-pig n. at puff n. and adj. Compounds 2, puffing pig n. at puffing adj. Compounds. Now rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Phocaenidae (porpoise)

swineeOE

mereswineeOE

pellock1331

sea-swine1398

porpoisea1425

brownswinec1440

bassinatc1540

pollantine1558

sea-hog1580

hogfish1611

tursion1655

tumbler1694

sea-pig1826

snuffer1829

puffing pig1845

puff-pig1861

puffer1884

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I i. 14 On the Atlantic coast occurs most abundantly the little Harbor Porpoise Phocæna brachycion Cope, known to the fishermen as ‘Puffer’, ‘Snuffer’, [etc.].

1911 Fisheries U.S. 1908 (U.S. Bur. Census Spec. Rep.) 314/1 Porpoise (Phocæna communis).—A cetacean found on the north Atlantic and north Pacific coasts, ascending rivers. It is known as ‘harbor porpoise’, ‘herring-hog’, ‘puffer’, [etc.].

d. History of Science. An inferior or amateur alchemist.

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1931 J. C. Locke tr. É.-J. Grillot de Givry Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy 350 It is not then from alchemy, as often stated, that modern chemistry derives, but actually from the erratic work of the Puffers [Fr. souffleurs]. These spent themselves in experiments on alien substances condemned by the true adepts.

1950 Times 12 Jan. 7/4 The breach between the charlatans, puffers, and petty crooks, and the serious philosophers and religious mystics was now irrevocably established.

2004 D. W. Hauck Sorceror's Stone ii. 36 Newton was no common puffer but a spiritual alchemist of the first caliber.

e. A type of late 16th-century German wheel-lock pistol, used as a cavalry weapon, and characterized by having a ball on the end of the butt; (also) the characteristically shaped stock of such a pistol.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > types of

dag1587

key gun1607

pocket pistol1612

key pistol1663

holster-pistol1679

troop pistol1688

horse pistol1704

screw-barrel1744

saddle pistol1764

air pistol1780

Wogdon1786

belt pistol1833

dueller1835

Colt1838

tickler1844

Derringer1853

cocking pistol1858

belt size1866

bulldozer1880

saloon pistol1899

Luger1904

Police Positive1905

Steyr1920

Saturday-night pistol1929

muff pistol1938

PPK1946

Makarov1958

Saturday-night special1959

puffer1963

snub nose1979

snubby1981

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. vi. 184 When a pistol is called in colloquial German a puffer, the meaning of the word matches that used for it in French Argot, a ‘soufflant’.]

1963 J. F. Hayward Art of Gunmaker I. 75 The other type [of wheel-lock pistol stock], known as a Puffer, has the butt at a rather sharper angle to the barrel, ending in a round ball-butt, which is quite small on the earlier pieces, but becomes very large on those dating from the end of the century.

1970 G. Boothroyd Handgun i. 16/2 An elegance of form that is totally lacking in..the ball-butted Puffer, the German wheellock pistol.

1993 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Aug. The German wheel-lock puffer pistol sold for $18,700.

f. In full pink puffer. A person with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who is severely short of breath but has relatively normal blood gases and is not oedematous.

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1965 Lancet 29 May 1131/1 Subjects with irreversible obstructive airway disease fell into two clinical types—‘the pink puffer’ and ‘the blue bloater’, the former being the patient with dry emphysema and the latter is the chronic bronchitic.

1980 Lancet 2 Aug. 243/1 If diazepam relieves the distressing dyspnoea which so limits activity in the pink puffer, this will be a great advance.

2003 Nutrition 19 471/1 Malnutrition..is a common feature, especially of the ‘pink puffer’, a subgroup of patients with COPD [= chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

g. A squeezable bulb or plastic container designed to blow out a cloud of powder through a small aperture; spec. one used to administer a dose of aerosolized drug to the nose or lungs, esp. in the treatment of asthma; (also) such a device for delivering a puff of air. Frequently attributive.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > instrument used to apply > instrument used to apply powder

puffc1651

powder puff1678

powdering puff1699

pluff1714

puff1732

puffball1821

powder rag1878

puffer1971

1971 Times 2 June 1/1 The drug, Rynacrom, a disodium chromoglycate, is a development of Intal... It is in powder form and is used with a puffer.

1971 Petticoat 24 July 9/3 A must for your handbag is the..Travel Trio which contains a puffer talc.

1978 R. Westall Devil on Road viii. 52 I'll take..a puffer-bottle for the [cat's] ear-mites.

1986 W. Garner Zones of Silence xiv. 119 She picked up the puffer brush... She squeezed the puffer several times.

2000 New Vision 28 June 10/6 Usually, in such cases, we have ‘puffers’ which are prescribed by doctors to be administered to asthmatic children when they are short of breath.

a. A person who praises or extols the merits of someone or something, esp. in an exaggerated manner and frequently out of self-interest; a writer of advertising puffs; a panegyrist. Also with up. Cf. puff v. 6a.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > one who commends or praises > for ulterior purpose

puffer1624

puff1730

log-roller1821

whooper-up1872

plugger1908

builder-upper1936

1624 J. Ussher Answer to Challenge by Iesuite 492 To whose judgement I also now leave these Vaine defenders, or..deceivers, and puffers up, and presumptuous extollers of Free-will.

c1736 Hogarth in A. Dobson Life (1883) iv. 33 What the puffers in books call the great style of history-painting.

1779 F. Burney Let. Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 391 He is..a prodigious Puffer, —now of his Fortune—now of his Family.

1836 Times 12 Oct. 3/7 The pet architect of the triumvirate and his stipendiary puffers.

1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 273 The gross devices resorted to by puffers of quack medicines.

a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) x. 93 The puffers and earwigs and clawbacks and parasites surrounding her.

1998 Chicago Tribune 19 Jan. ii. 7/4 Were we journalists then and we're just puffers of stories now to get numbers?

b. A person employed to bid at an auction in order to raise the price or to encourage others to bid. Cf. puff v. 6b, puffing n.² 3b.

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society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > bidder > one who runs up bidding

goad1608

setter1699

white bonnet1760

puffer1765

sweetener1823

jolly1856

runner-up1860

floor man1928

1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. i. xviii. 122 It is only slipping a puffer or two..at them..and they may be raised to any price.

1818–19 Leigh's New Picture London (1823) 101 (Mock Auctions) Associates, called puffers, are in waiting to raise the article beyond its value.

1867 Act 30 & 31 Vict. c. 48 §3 ‘Puffer’ shall mean a person appointed to bid on the part of the owner.

1877 J. Williams Princ. Law Real Property (ed. 12) 168 The sale of real estate by auction is now regulated by an act which renders invalid every such sale where a puffer is employed.

1933 Times 28 Sept. 16/7 The case in which a would-be buyer retained the services, as his own bidder, of a man who usually acted as what is called a ‘puffer’..for the vendor's auctioneer.

1995 B. W. Harvey & F. Meisel Auctions Law & Pract. (ed. 2) vi. 184 An important [legal] distinction is drawn between the employment of a puffer to bid up to what is, in effect, a reserve price and using another..to boost the price.

5. English regional. Any of several birds; esp. †(a) the blue tit, Parus caeruleus (obsolete); (b) the little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis (now rare).

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Podicipediformes (grebes) > member of (grebe)

grebe1768

puffer1773

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus caeruleus (blue-tit)

pinnockc1275

meese1480

nun1585

tomtit1648

blue titmouse1673

puffer1773

blue cap1797

pinchem1809

blue bonnet1811

pick-cheesea1825

blue tit1831

billy-biter1843

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 220/1 Among upwards of 160 species of birds, natives of or killed in England, are the following,..a kind of Puffer not described.

1864 J. C. Atkinson List Provinc. Names Birds Puffer, North England for Blue Tit~mouse, Parus cærulea.

1898 Yorks. Weekly Post 31 Dec. 24/2 I have also heard the..Little Grebe [termed the] Tom Pudding and Puffer... In the North and East Ridings..in the neighbourhood of Pickering is the only place where I have heard Little Grabes [sic] called Puffers.

6. In full puffer fish. Any of various stout-bodied marine and freshwater globefishes, esp. of the family Tetraodontidae, which inflate themselves with water when alarmed and are sometimes used as food (although some parts are highly toxic).

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Tetraodontidae (puffers) > member of (puff-fish)

globe fish1668

sea-orb1774

Tetrodon1774

puff-fish1807

puffer1814

swell-fish1839

rabbitfish1842

tambour1854

swallow1876

blaasop1902

toado1943

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of

toad-fish1612

globe fish1668

sculpin1672

sea-hedgehog1711

sea-orb1774

puff-fish1807

puffer1814

balloonfish1834

swell-fish1839

tambour1854

swallow1876

blaasop1947

1814 S. L. Mitchill Rep. Fishes N.-Y. 473 Puffer... He is called in some places, toad-fish, because his back is mottled with yellow & dark.

1842 Nat. Hist. N.Y., Zool. iv. 327 The Common Puffer... This species is scarcely ever eaten.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I iii. 170 The Porcupine Fishes—Diodontidæ. Swell Fishes and Puffers.

1919 Bull. N.Y. Zool. Soc. 22 126/1 (title) Puffer fishes and some interesting uses of their skins.

1947 K. H. Barnard Pictorial Guide S. Afr. Fishes 209 Globe-Fishes or Puffers. Known at the Cape as Blaasops and in England and America as Puffers from their habit of ‘blowing up’ or puffing out the body.

1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. i. 3 The ovaries of the pufferfish (an excellent source of tetrodotoxin, one of the most powerful poisons known to man).

1991 Sea Frontiers Feb. 46 (caption) The unusual appears commonplace underwater: the unicornfish (Naso unicornis..) and the masked puffer (Arothron diadematus ).

†7. A vat in which cloth is boiled in lye. Cf. puffer pipe n. at Compounds. Obsolete.

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1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 135/2 The pieces [of cloth] are..boiled with lime in..a bucking or bowking-keir, or puffer.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1817/2 Puffer, a vat in which goods are boiled in an alkaline solution.

Compounds

puffer pipe n. now rare a vertical pipe in a bleaching vat, through which the active liquid is drawn and spread over the cloth (cf. sense 7).

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1853 Repertory Patent Inventions 22 402 The object of this invention is to cause the liquor to flow up the ‘puffer pipe’ as soon as the steam is turned on.

1924 S.H. Higgins Hist. Bleaching ix. 136 The circulation of the liquor is caused by steam admitted to the puffer pipe throwing the liquor over the cloth and withdrawing it through the false bottom.

1946 J.T. Marsh Introd. Textile Bleaching xv. 173 A vertical puffer-pipe of 4 to 5 inches diameter is attached to a conical base in the centre of which rises a steam-pipe.

puffer-train n. colloquial (originally in children's language) a steam train or steam locomotive (cf. puff train n. at puff n. and adj. Compounds 1a).

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1904 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 18 Dec. 11/4 Dear Santa Claus—I want..a little puffer train and cars.

1958 M. Kelly Christmas Egg (1965) ii. 71 Mr Majendie moved off like an old puffer train.

2003 T. Blackshaw Leisure Life vii. 134 Over there a precinct that leads to the ‘penny’ arcade and the clubhouse. The ubiquitous puffer-train.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	puffer
释义	puffern. Brit. /ˈpʌfə/, U.S. /ˈpəfər/ Forms: in sense 3e chiefly with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: puff v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < puff v. + -er suffix¹.In sense 3e after German Puffer (1611 or earlier; compare puff n. 1c). †1. With up. Something that causes a person to swell with pride, vanity, etc. Cf. puff v. 7a. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 186 It [sc. cloistering from the common] becomes the puffer vp to pride in the recluse, and the direction to disdaine, by dreaming still of bettership. a1787 J. Brown Sel. Remains (1789) 129 My knowledge but an accursed puffer up! A murderer of my soul! †2. a. A person employed in padding or stuffing anything. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Embourreur, a stuffer, bumbaster or puffer up of things with flocks, etc. 1742 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lxv. 280 He..should keep no Company, but that of Tailors, Wig-puffers, and Milaners. b. A teacher who specializes in instilling knowledge quickly and efficiently; a crammer. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > crammer feeder1766 puffer1786 crammer1814 grinder1814 cram1861 cram-coach1885 1786 R. Cumberland Observer I. xxxviii. 270 The Polishing Puffers..who are endowed with the happy faculty of instilling arts and sciences into their disciples, like fixed air into a vapid menstruum. 3. a. A person who or thing which puffs out air, smoke, etc., or who puffs into something; esp. a smoker of tobacco. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities Plutoc1330 Herculesc1369 Proteusa1425 Tellusc1425 chaosa1522 grace1538 terminus1565 victory1569 Hymena1593 harvest queen1598 Hades1599 aurora1610 puffer1615 Egeria1624 hour1637 Hygeia1737 Kore1844 Nike1846 vintage-god1873 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > [noun] > smoker tobacchian1597 tobacco-taker1599 tobacconist1600 puffer1615 tobacco-fellow1616 tobacconer1616 smoker1617 whiffler1617 fume-gallant1621 whiffera1627 funker1691 tobacco-smoker1848 tobacconalian1854 nicotian1872 tobaccophil1882 coffin dodger1891 tobaccoite1898 tobacco-whiffer- 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια x. vi. 744 Lippes haue nine [muscles],..and the ninth is called Buccinator or the Puffer. 1629 S. Harsnet Rules Chigwell School in Victoria Hist. County Essex (1907) II. 544 [The Latin schoolmaster was to be] a man..of a sober and honest conversation, no tipler nor Haunter of ale houses, no Puffer of Tobacco. 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 8 Jove..made him [sc. Æolus] King of all the Puffers. 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. ix. 8 Leaving us to Chatter with our Drolling Mundungus Puffer. 1730 T. Cooke Candidates for Bays 5 Next Harlequin L——, with a Mask and a Dance, And a Horn-Puffer, newly come over from France. 1860 R. S. Surtees Plain or Ringlets? x. 23 Young gentlemen must smoke now-a-days, whether they like it or not. Presently the puffers were seen straggling away. 1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 730 Both..pishers and puffers..being noisily wrong. 1990 Atlantic May 113/1 Alongside much of the Austrian Danube runs a paved bicycle path down which..groups of corpulent puffers pedal on bicycles. 1997 Sunday Post (Glasgow) 4 May 7/1 I even got a perverse enjoyment from my volcanic smoker's cough, swapping early-morning cough anecdotes with fellow puffers. b. A boat or vehicle powered by steam; spec. (chiefly Scottish) a small steamboat used for carrying cargo in coastal waters. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine > cargo-steamer packet steamer1842 puffer1849 smoke-jack1892 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > of other construction or rig buss?a1400 fly-boat1583 caramoussal1587 penteconter1784 galliot1794 puffer1849 billyboy1855 York boat1864 smoke-jack1892 Panamax1972 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > steam-powered > traction engine steam-horse1815 puffer1849 traction-engine1859 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine steamboat1787 steamship1819 smoker1825 steamer1825 steam-vessel1825 smoke-boat1867 S.S.1868 puffer1901 1849 J. P. Townsend Rambles New S. Wales 252 The harbour swarmed with vessels of every description, from large steamers to little ‘puffers’, or steam-boats that would hardly hold a dozen people. 1901 Scotsman 19 Dec. 5/4 One of the crew of the puffer had fallen overboard. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 7 Trains are still called puff-puffs or puffers as against the American onomatope choo-choo. 1974 Times 7 Dec. 3/2 Mr Alan Pegler bought the majestic old LNER puffer [sc. the Flying Scotsman] in 1962. 2002 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 11 Aug. 4 Queen of the party was the Spartan, the last operating puffer to be built in Scotland and 60 years young this year. c. U.S. The common porpoise, Phocoena phocoena. Cf. puff-pig n. at puff n. and adj. Compounds 2, puffing pig n. at puffing adj. Compounds. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Odontoceti > [noun] > family Phocaenidae (porpoise) swineeOE mereswineeOE pellock1331 sea-swine1398 porpoisea1425 brownswinec1440 bassinatc1540 pollantine1558 sea-hog1580 hogfish1611 tursion1655 tumbler1694 sea-pig1826 snuffer1829 puffing pig1845 puff-pig1861 puffer1884 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I i. 14 On the Atlantic coast occurs most abundantly the little Harbor Porpoise Phocæna brachycion Cope, known to the fishermen as ‘Puffer’, ‘Snuffer’, [etc.]. 1911 Fisheries U.S. 1908 (U.S. Bur. Census Spec. Rep.) 314/1 Porpoise (Phocæna communis).—A cetacean found on the north Atlantic and north Pacific coasts, ascending rivers. It is known as ‘harbor porpoise’, ‘herring-hog’, ‘puffer’, [etc.]. d. History of Science. An inferior or amateur alchemist. ΚΠ 1931 J. C. Locke tr. É.-J. Grillot de Givry Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy 350 It is not then from alchemy, as often stated, that modern chemistry derives, but actually from the erratic work of the Puffers [Fr. souffleurs]. These spent themselves in experiments on alien substances condemned by the true adepts. 1950 Times 12 Jan. 7/4 The breach between the charlatans, puffers, and petty crooks, and the serious philosophers and religious mystics was now irrevocably established. 2004 D. W. Hauck Sorceror's Stone ii. 36 Newton was no common puffer but a spiritual alchemist of the first caliber. e. A type of late 16th-century German wheel-lock pistol, used as a cavalry weapon, and characterized by having a ball on the end of the butt; (also) the characteristically shaped stock of such a pistol. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > types of dag1587 key gun1607 pocket pistol1612 key pistol1663 holster-pistol1679 troop pistol1688 horse pistol1704 screw-barrel1744 saddle pistol1764 air pistol1780 Wogdon1786 belt pistol1833 dueller1835 Colt1838 tickler1844 Derringer1853 cocking pistol1858 belt size1866 bulldozer1880 saloon pistol1899 Luger1904 Police Positive1905 Steyr1920 Saturday-night pistol1929 muff pistol1938 PPK1946 Makarov1958 Saturday-night special1959 puffer1963 snub nose1979 snubby1981 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. vi. 184 When a pistol is called in colloquial German a puffer, the meaning of the word matches that used for it in French Argot, a ‘soufflant’.] 1963 J. F. Hayward Art of Gunmaker I. 75 The other type [of wheel-lock pistol stock], known as a Puffer, has the butt at a rather sharper angle to the barrel, ending in a round ball-butt, which is quite small on the earlier pieces, but becomes very large on those dating from the end of the century. 1970 G. Boothroyd Handgun i. 16/2 An elegance of form that is totally lacking in..the ball-butted Puffer, the German wheellock pistol. 1993 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 Aug. The German wheel-lock puffer pistol sold for $18,700. f. In full pink puffer. A person with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who is severely short of breath but has relatively normal blood gases and is not oedematous. ΚΠ 1965 Lancet 29 May 1131/1 Subjects with irreversible obstructive airway disease fell into two clinical types—‘the pink puffer’ and ‘the blue bloater’, the former being the patient with dry emphysema and the latter is the chronic bronchitic. 1980 Lancet 2 Aug. 243/1 If diazepam relieves the distressing dyspnoea which so limits activity in the pink puffer, this will be a great advance. 2003 Nutrition 19 471/1 Malnutrition..is a common feature, especially of the ‘pink puffer’, a subgroup of patients with COPD [= chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]. g. A squeezable bulb or plastic container designed to blow out a cloud of powder through a small aperture; spec. one used to administer a dose of aerosolized drug to the nose or lungs, esp. in the treatment of asthma; (also) such a device for delivering a puff of air. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > instrument used to apply > instrument used to apply powder puffc1651 powder puff1678 powdering puff1699 pluff1714 puff1732 puffball1821 powder rag1878 puffer1971 1971 Times 2 June 1/1 The drug, Rynacrom, a disodium chromoglycate, is a development of Intal... It is in powder form and is used with a puffer. 1971 Petticoat 24 July 9/3 A must for your handbag is the..Travel Trio which contains a puffer talc. 1978 R. Westall Devil on Road viii. 52 I'll take..a puffer-bottle for the [cat's] ear-mites. 1986 W. Garner Zones of Silence xiv. 119 She picked up the puffer brush... She squeezed the puffer several times. 2000 New Vision 28 June 10/6 Usually, in such cases, we have ‘puffers’ which are prescribed by doctors to be administered to asthmatic children when they are short of breath. 4. a. A person who praises or extols the merits of someone or something, esp. in an exaggerated manner and frequently out of self-interest; a writer of advertising puffs; a panegyrist. Also with up. Cf. puff v. 6a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > one who commends or praises > for ulterior purpose puffer1624 puff1730 log-roller1821 whooper-up1872 plugger1908 builder-upper1936 1624 J. Ussher Answer to Challenge by Iesuite 492 To whose judgement I also now leave these Vaine defenders, or..deceivers, and puffers up, and presumptuous extollers of Free-will. c1736 Hogarth in A. Dobson Life (1883) iv. 33 What the puffers in books call the great style of history-painting. 1779 F. Burney Let. Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 391 He is..a prodigious Puffer, —now of his Fortune—now of his Family. 1836 Times 12 Oct. 3/7 The pet architect of the triumvirate and his stipendiary puffers. 1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life I. 273 The gross devices resorted to by puffers of quack medicines. a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) x. 93 The puffers and earwigs and clawbacks and parasites surrounding her. 1998 Chicago Tribune 19 Jan. ii. 7/4 Were we journalists then and we're just puffers of stories now to get numbers? b. A person employed to bid at an auction in order to raise the price or to encourage others to bid. Cf. puff v. 6b, puffing n.² 3b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > bidder > one who runs up bidding goad1608 setter1699 white bonnet1760 puffer1765 sweetener1823 jolly1856 runner-up1860 floor man1928 1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal IV. i. xviii. 122 It is only slipping a puffer or two..at them..and they may be raised to any price. 1818–19 Leigh's New Picture London (1823) 101 (Mock Auctions) Associates, called puffers, are in waiting to raise the article beyond its value. 1867 Act 30 & 31 Vict. c. 48 §3 ‘Puffer’ shall mean a person appointed to bid on the part of the owner. 1877 J. Williams Princ. Law Real Property (ed. 12) 168 The sale of real estate by auction is now regulated by an act which renders invalid every such sale where a puffer is employed. 1933 Times 28 Sept. 16/7 The case in which a would-be buyer retained the services, as his own bidder, of a man who usually acted as what is called a ‘puffer’..for the vendor's auctioneer. 1995 B. W. Harvey & F. Meisel Auctions Law & Pract. (ed. 2) vi. 184 An important [legal] distinction is drawn between the employment of a puffer to bid up to what is, in effect, a reserve price and using another..to boost the price. 5. English regional. Any of several birds; esp. †(a) the blue tit, Parus caeruleus (obsolete); (b) the little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Podicipediformes (grebes) > member of (grebe) grebe1768 puffer1773 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Paridae > [noun] > genus Parus (tit) > parus caeruleus (blue-tit) pinnockc1275 meese1480 nun1585 tomtit1648 blue titmouse1673 puffer1773 blue cap1797 pinchem1809 blue bonnet1811 pick-cheesea1825 blue tit1831 billy-biter1843 1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 220/1 Among upwards of 160 species of birds, natives of or killed in England, are the following,..a kind of Puffer not described. 1864 J. C. Atkinson List Provinc. Names Birds Puffer, North England for Blue Tit~mouse, Parus cærulea. 1898 Yorks. Weekly Post 31 Dec. 24/2 I have also heard the..Little Grebe [termed the] Tom Pudding and Puffer... In the North and East Ridings..in the neighbourhood of Pickering is the only place where I have heard Little Grabes [sic] called Puffers. 6. In full puffer fish. Any of various stout-bodied marine and freshwater globefishes, esp. of the family Tetraodontidae, which inflate themselves with water when alarmed and are sometimes used as food (although some parts are highly toxic). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Tetraodontidae (puffers) > member of (puff-fish) globe fish1668 sea-orb1774 Tetrodon1774 puff-fish1807 puffer1814 swell-fish1839 rabbitfish1842 tambour1854 swallow1876 blaasop1902 toado1943 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of toad-fish1612 globe fish1668 sculpin1672 sea-hedgehog1711 sea-orb1774 puff-fish1807 puffer1814 balloonfish1834 swell-fish1839 tambour1854 swallow1876 blaasop1947 1814 S. L. Mitchill Rep. Fishes N.-Y. 473 Puffer... He is called in some places, toad-fish, because his back is mottled with yellow & dark. 1842 Nat. Hist. N.Y., Zool. iv. 327 The Common Puffer... This species is scarcely ever eaten. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I iii. 170 The Porcupine Fishes—Diodontidæ. Swell Fishes and Puffers. 1919 Bull. N.Y. Zool. Soc. 22 126/1 (title) Puffer fishes and some interesting uses of their skins. 1947 K. H. Barnard Pictorial Guide S. Afr. Fishes 209 Globe-Fishes or Puffers. Known at the Cape as Blaasops and in England and America as Puffers from their habit of ‘blowing up’ or puffing out the body. 1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. i. 3 The ovaries of the pufferfish (an excellent source of tetrodotoxin, one of the most powerful poisons known to man). 1991 Sea Frontiers Feb. 46 (caption) The unusual appears commonplace underwater: the unicornfish (Naso unicornis..) and the masked puffer (Arothron diadematus ). †7. A vat in which cloth is boiled in lye. Cf. puffer pipe n. at Compounds. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 135/2 The pieces [of cloth] are..boiled with lime in..a bucking or bowking-keir, or puffer. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1817/2 Puffer, a vat in which goods are boiled in an alkaline solution. Compounds puffer pipe n. now rare a vertical pipe in a bleaching vat, through which the active liquid is drawn and spread over the cloth (cf. sense 7). ΚΠ 1853 Repertory Patent Inventions 22 402 The object of this invention is to cause the liquor to flow up the ‘puffer pipe’ as soon as the steam is turned on. 1924 S.H. Higgins Hist. Bleaching ix. 136 The circulation of the liquor is caused by steam admitted to the puffer pipe throwing the liquor over the cloth and withdrawing it through the false bottom. 1946 J.T. Marsh Introd. Textile Bleaching xv. 173 A vertical puffer-pipe of 4 to 5 inches diameter is attached to a conical base in the centre of which rises a steam-pipe. puffer-train n. colloquial (originally in children's language) a steam train or steam locomotive (cf. puff train n. at puff n. and adj. Compounds 1a). ΚΠ 1904 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 18 Dec. 11/4 Dear Santa Claus—I want..a little puffer train and cars. 1958 M. Kelly Christmas Egg (1965) ii. 71 Mr Majendie moved off like an old puffer train. 2003 T. Blackshaw Leisure Life vii. 134 Over there a precinct that leads to the ‘penny’ arcade and the clubhouse. The ubiquitous puffer-train. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1581
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