puffin

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.3 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈpʌfɪn/
• Rhymes: -ʌfɪn

[edit] Noun

puffin (plural puffins)

1. Any of various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly coloured beak.
   • 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, The White Seal

     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.

[edit] Synonyms

• sea-parrot

[edit] Derived terms

• puffinet
• puffinry

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