Meanings
- uncountableA corn snack, visually similar to popcorn, but made with corn meal and baked.
Additional products include pretzels, regular and cheese puffcorn, cheese curls, corn chips, tortilla chips, pork rinds and salsa dip.
2010, Food & Beverage Market Place, Grey House Publishing, volume 1, 11272 more examples
She tossed the pork rinds into the trash can and settled on some cheese puffcorn curls—not the healthiest things in the world but an improvement upon the former.
2006, Peyton Mathie, chapter 27, in Hayden's Corner, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 69Suddenly, something Henry said caught my attention. “Where'd you get these boxes of puffcorn?” he asked. “This stuff has no taste at all!”
2012, Kris Vallotton, chapter 9, in Spirit Wars: Winning the Invisible Battle Against Sin and the Enemy, Chosen Books, →ISBN, page 137
Origin
Translations
German gepuffter Mais
- gepuffter Maiscorn snack
Hungarian pufi kukorica
- pufi kukoricacorn snack
Polish chrupka, chrupek
- chrupkacorn snack
- chrupekcorn snack
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puffcorn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/puffcorn
“puffcorn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/puffcorn. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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