pufferfish
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From the verb 'puff' with the suffix '-ery' indicating a place or quality.
مثال
- The company's advertisement was filled with puffery, promising unrealistic results.
- Legal regulations aim to prevent false puffery in advertising.
- The salesman's puffery convinced many customers to buy the product.
ترکیبهای رایج
Exaggerated puffery False puffery Unrealistic puffery Salesman's puffery Book blurb puffery
تعریف انگلیسی
noun
- delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver “Substance Meronyms: tetrodotoxin”
- 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