Delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver.

synonyms: blowfish, pufferfish, sea squab.

Roget 935: flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator [Lat.], whitewasher.    toady, toadeater^†; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur [Fr.], proneur [Fr.]; puffer, touter^†, claqueur [Fr.]; clawback^†, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on etc. (servility) 886.    yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser [Vulg.], brown-noser [Vulg.], teacher's pet.    ... show more

Roget 935: flatterer, adulator; eulogist, euphemist; optimist, encomiast, laudator [Lat.], whitewasher.    toady, toadeater^†; sycophant, courtier, Sir Pertinax MacSycophant; flaneur [Fr.], proneur [Fr.]; puffer, touter^†, claqueur [Fr.]; clawback^†, earwig, doer of dirty work; parasite, hanger-on etc. (servility) 886.    yes-man, suckup, ass-kisser [Vulg.], brown-noser [Vulg.], teacher's pet.    ... show more

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.

synonyms: blowfish, globefish, pufferfish.

Dutch: kogelvis