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Puffin   /pˈəfˌɪn/   Listen
Puffin

noun
1.
Any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills.



Related searches:
Atlantic puffin
horned puffin
tufted puffin


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"Puffin" Quotes from Famous Books



... kind, sor, meself. Whin the flats where we used to be got afire and Pat had to lug me down the fire escape in his arms, they tell me I was laughin' fit to kill; that is, when I wasn't screechin' for fear he'd drop me. And him, poor soul, never seein' the joke, but puffin' and groanin' that his back was in two pieces. Ha, ha! Oh, dear! And him in two pieces now for sure and all! Aw, sor, it's all right for you to laugh it off, but what would we do without you? You and ...
— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln
... "I heard de engines puffin' past early dis mawnin', an' I gits up an' goes out. Dere was a toy store on fire, an' dey frowed a lot ob toys out in de street. Dere was Jumpin' Jacks, ...
— The Story of a China Cat • Laura Lee Hope


Words linked to "Puffin" :   Lunda cirrhata, Fratercula arctica, family Alcidae, seafowl, seabird, Alcidae, horned puffin, sea bird, Fratercula corniculata, tufted puffin


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