See puffery on Wiktionary
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"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
65,
72
]
],
"ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 294:",
"text": "Harvest was promptly pegged as a \"lite\" group, a purveyor of pop puffery.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
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85,
92
]
],
"ref": "1996 November 23, J. E. Lighter, “Blowing Smoke”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015:",
"text": "Cigarheads even have a new magazine, a lavish, glossy two-pound package of pride and puffery called Cigar Aficionado.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Superficial or insubstantial material; fluff."
],
"links": [
[
"Superficial",
"superficial#English"
],
[
"insubstantial",
"insubstantial"
],
[
"fluff",
"fluff"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpʌfəɹi/"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
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"tags": [
"General-American"
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],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "act of puffing",
"word": "esbroufe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of puffing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Paffen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of puffing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Aufblasen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of puffing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Pusten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of puffing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Blasen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of puffing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fortblasen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "fulsome public praise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schmeichlerei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "fulsome public praise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Anpreisung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "fulsome public praise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Marktschreierei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "fulsome public praise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "marktschreierisches Gehabe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "fulsome public praise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "marktschreierisches Anpreisen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "fulsome public praise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Lobhudelei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "fulsome public praise",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "überschwängliches Lob"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "fulsome public praise",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Lobeshymne"
}
],
"word": "puffery"
}
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