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pufferies

pufferies is the plural of puffery.

Meaning of puffery

Noun

puffery (countable and uncountable, plural pufferies)

  1. An act of puffing.
  2. Excessive or false public praise.
  3. Superficial or insubstantial material; fluff.
    • Harvest was promptly pegged as a "lite" group, a purveyor of pop puffery.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 294

Questions about pufferies

What is pufferies the plural of?
Pufferies is the plural of puffery.

Words near pufferies in the dictionary

  1. puffer trains
  2. pufferbellies
  3. pufferbelly
  4. pufferfish
  5. pufferfishes
  6. pufferies
  7. puffers
  8. puffery
  9. puffest
  10. puffet
  11. puffeth

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