puffball

English

Etymology

From puff +‎ ball.

Noun

puffball (plural puffballs)

  1. Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.
  2. A dandelion flower that has gone to seed.
  3. (figurative) Something lacking substance.
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 371:
      Scads of souls thought the record was yet another puffball from ex-Beatle Paul.

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