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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
Purfle
- - To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.
Quaffs
- noun - a hearty draft
- to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers"
Quiffs
- noun - a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead)
Rueful
- adjective - feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Ruffle
- noun - a high tight collar
- a noisy fight
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- discompose; "This play is going to ruffle some people"; "She has a way of ruffling feathers among her colleagues"
- disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"
- erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers"
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards"
- pleat or gather into a ruffle; "ruffle the curtain fabric"
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
- trouble or vex; "ruffle somebody's composure"
- twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked"
Suffer
- verb -
- be given to; "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much"
- be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"
- experience (emotional) pain; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"
- feel pain or be in pain
- feel physical pain; "Were you hurting after the accident?"
- feel unwell or uncomfortable; "She is suffering from the hot weather"
- get worse; "His grades suffered"
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle"
- undergo or be subjected to; "He suffered the penalty"; "Many saints suffered martyrdom"
- undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate"