Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The viviparous blenny or eel-pout, Zoarces viviparus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The eelpout; guffer eel.
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- noun zoology The
eelpout or guffer eel.
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Examples
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They are called "guffer;" are six feet in diameter and three feet in height; are very safe, for they never upset, and may be travelled in over the worst roads.
A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827
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Paul Williams is a master of talking horseshit, but even a guffer like him finds it hard to fill pages every week with shite sensationalism about the Irish criminal underworld.
Irish Blogs 2010
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He would bare to untired world of Leimunconon-nulstria (and what a strip poker globbtrottel they pairs would looks!) how wholefallows, his guffer, the sabbatarian (might faction split his beard!), he too had a great big oh in the megafundum of his tomashunders and how her Lettyshape, his gummer, that congealed sponsar, she had never cessed at waking malters among the jemassons since the duft that meataxe delt her made her microchasm as gap as down low.
Finnegans Wake 2006
hernesheir commented on the word guffer
It's a fish.
January 1, 2012