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It is often used as a verb to mean someone who is puffing up their chest in a display of bravado or pride. For example, "The boy was puffering his chest out, trying to look more impressive than he actually was."
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puffer
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Someone or something that puffs.
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These include barracuda, grouper, snapper, parrot fish and puffer fish.
His ideology shifted with whatever group he was talking to, conservative one moment and leftish the next, as various as the suits, jeans, Robin Hood outfits, puffer ski-jackets and medieval robes in which he clad himself.
In fact, the order Tetraodontiformes contains so many strangely specialized species that the group has intrigued humankind from early times; 1st-century Roman author Pliny the Younger, for example, discussed puffer fishes and ocean sunfishes in his Natural History.
In garfish and puffer fish, the flow is maintained by the action of cilia on accessory cells in the olfactory epithelium.
The flesh of the poisonous species can be safely eaten only when the freshly caught specimen has been carefully cleaned and washed in the exacting manner of fugu (or puffer fish) chefs in Japan.
The blue-ringed octopus, box jellyfish, the Brazilian wandering spider, death stalker scorpion, inland Taipan snake, king cobra, marbled cone snail, poison dart frog, puffer fish and the stone fish all possess a pattern or body shape similar to that in the trypophobic images.
The scenes showing them "using" puffer fish will feature in the second episode of the series, which starts on Thursday.
Many species, especially puffer fishes (Tetraodontidae), have poisonous flesh, at least during certain seasons of the year, but most of the highly poisonous substance (tetraodontoxin) responsible for the numerous annual fatalities in Indo-Pacific regions is contained in the viscera.
(There are also squirrel monkeys, hornbills, puffer fish, a spider monkey named Coco, and, naturally, bunnies).
He spent about an hour wading through a sartorially mixed crowd — topcoats and puffer jackets, generous helpings of tweed, some Gore-Tex, occasional fur — engaging in small talk with club members, filmmakers, and other attendees.
Who will have the harder road in life, or indeed the longer one: the teenage puffer or the chubby child?
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