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blowfish

[ bloh-fish ]

noun

plural (especially collectively) blowfish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) blowfishes.


blowfish

/ ˈ²ú±ôəʊˌ´Úɪʃ /

noun

  1. a popular name for puffer
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of blowfish1

First recorded in 1890–95; blow 2 + fish
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One man picked up the blowfish and studied it.

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Worried it would turn into another gentrified restaurant, he bought it and renamed the place after a longtime waiter who he said resembled a blowfish.

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There’s an intelligent simplicity to the early courses, like the grilled blowfish tails that sit in melted Espelette butter under a warm spoonful of red pepper-shallot relish.

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The group tried fried local blowfish, yellow tomato gazpacho, lobster risotto, barbecue ribs, cherry peach pie and more.

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Then East Sussex’s Bexhill Museum decided to get in on the act with this bloated “zombie blowfishâ€:

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