puffcorn en · NOUN
Etymology
From puff + corn.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A corn snack, visually similar to popcorn, but made with corn meal and baked.
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 69:Suddenly, 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: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, 1127:
Translations (4)
de gepuffter Mais (corn snack) · pl chrupka (corn snack) · hu pufi kukorica (corn snack) · pl chrupek (corn snack)