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Puffin

//ˈpʌfɪn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. obsolete
  2. 2
    any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills wordnet
  3. 3
    The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.

    "Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas—the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude—took up the cry, and—so Limmershin told me—for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet."

  4. 4
    Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
  5. 5
    A puffball. obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English poffin, poffoun, puffon, equivalent to puff + -ing, or perhaps ultimately from Middle Cornish (compare Breton poc'han (“puffin”)).

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