"fugu" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Japanese",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "河豚",
        "2": "ふぐ",
        "3": "blowfish"
      },
      "expansion": "河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Japanese 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "fugu (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 8 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sushi",
          "orig": "en:Sushi",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Japan",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Asia",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Tetraodontiforms",
          "orig": "en:Tetraodontiforms",
          "parents": [
            "Fish",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 August 5, Justin McCurry, “Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu—or puffer fish—a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:",
          "text": "A sluggish swimmer, fugu has stunted fins and often flat-lying spikes instead of scales, and when confronted by predators it compensates for its lack of speed by swallowing enough water to swell up until its spikes stand on end, so it looks like an angry armored balloon.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins."
      ],
      "id": "en-fugu-en-noun-dj0E-uSH",
      "links": [
        [
          "Blowfish",
          "blowfish"
        ],
        [
          "delicacy",
          "delicacy"
        ],
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan"
        ],
        [
          "raw",
          "raw"
        ],
        [
          "sushi",
          "sushi"
        ],
        [
          "prepare",
          "prepare"
        ],
        [
          "deadly",
          "deadly"
        ],
        [
          "neurotoxin",
          "neurotoxin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfuː.ɡuː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-fugu.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-fugu.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-fugu.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-fugu.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-fugu.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fugu"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ja",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Japanese",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "河豚",
        "2": "ふぐ",
        "3": "blowfish"
      },
      "expansion": "河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Japanese 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "fugu (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Japanese",
        "English terms derived from Japanese",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 8 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Sushi",
        "en:Tetraodontiforms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 August 5, Justin McCurry, “Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu—or puffer fish—a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:",
          "text": "A sluggish swimmer, fugu has stunted fins and often flat-lying spikes instead of scales, and when confronted by predators it compensates for its lack of speed by swallowing enough water to swell up until its spikes stand on end, so it looks like an angry armored balloon.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Blowfish",
          "blowfish"
        ],
        [
          "delicacy",
          "delicacy"
        ],
        [
          "Japan",
          "Japan"
        ],
        [
          "raw",
          "raw"
        ],
        [
          "sushi",
          "sushi"
        ],
        [
          "prepare",
          "prepare"
        ],
        [
          "deadly",
          "deadly"
        ],
        [
          "neurotoxin",
          "neurotoxin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfuː.ɡuː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-fugu.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-fugu.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-fugu.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-fugu.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-fugu.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fugu"
}