puffball

Etymology

puff + ball

noun

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

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