blowfish
b loh fish
- n delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver
- n 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
- I speak passable Japanese, and my epicurean husband happily devours everything from poison-blowfish sperm to stewed snapping turtle.
- The little blowfish is alone and frightened, and he has worked out a system of puffing up and blowing when confronted with dangerous reality .
- His worldview was famously imperturbable (say the word as Bing would, with the blowfish p's and b's).