Puffer \Puff"er\, n.

1. One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.

2. One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder. --Bouvier.

3. (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Blower \Blow"er\, n.

1. One who, or that which, blows.

2. (Mech.) A device for producing a current of air; as:
   (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire.
   (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.

3. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

4. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

5. (Zo["o]l.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

6. A braggart, or loud talker. [Slang] --Bartlett.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)