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Offput
- unknown - the act of putting off, delaying or wasting time
Offset
- noun - a compensating equivalent
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance; "offset deposits and withdrawals"
- create an offset in; "offset a wall"
- make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"
- produce by offset printing; "offset the conference proceedings"
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
Oxford
- noun - a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University
- a low shoe laced over the instep
- a university in England
- a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner
- The Oxford comma; a punctuation mark before the final 'and' in a list of items.
Piffle
- noun - act in a trivial or ineffective way
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- trivial nonsense
Puffed
- verb - blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"
- gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"
- make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego"
- praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
- smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man"
- suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
- to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
Puffer
- noun - any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
- delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
Puffin
- noun - any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
Raffia
- noun - feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes
- fiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets
- leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc.
Raffle
- noun - a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
- dispose of in a lottery; "We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas"