puffin en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈpʌfɪn/
Etymology
From Middle English poffin, poffoun, puffon, equivalent to puff + -ing, or perhaps ultimately from Middle Cornish (compare Breton poc'han (“puffin”)).
Meanings
- (obsolete) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
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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.
1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “The White Seal”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 110:The place was just, in short, the only spot on that part of the coast where anybody could well live; there was a neat little creek, where a boat might lie as snug as a puffin in her nest, and out from this creek a ledge of sunken rocks ran into the sea.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 527:
- Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
- (obsolete) A puffball.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| puffins | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Atlantic puffin · puffin crossing · puffinet · common puffin · horned puffin · crested puffin · puffling · puffinry · tufted puffin
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Translations (60)
it pulcinella di mare (Fratercula arctica) · kl qilanngaq (Fratercula arctica) · ru топо́рик (Fratercula arctica) · nv tsídii naʼałkǫ́ʼígíí (Fratercula arctica) · da søpapegøje (Fratercula arctica) · nrf gode à rouoge bé (Fratercula arctica) · de Nashornalk (Fratercula arctica) · rm sfunsella (Fratercula arctica) · cy pâl (Fratercula arctica) · fi lunni (Fratercula arctica) · non lundi (Fratercula arctica) · el φρατέρκουλα (Fratercula arctica) · be ту́пік (Fratercula arctica) · de Papageientaucher (F. arctica) (Fratercula arctica) · is lundi (Fratercula arctica) · pt papagaio-do-mar (Fratercula arctica) · sco (tammie) norrie (Fratercula arctica) · nrf poffîn (Fratercula arctica) · uk іпатка (Fratercula arctica) · de Papageitaucher (Fratercula arctica) · ja 角目鳥 (Fratercula arctica) · sk alka bielobradá (Fratercula arctica) · nl papegaaiduiker (Fratercula arctica) · eo fraterkulo (Fratercula arctica) · ga puifín (Fratercula arctica) · kw nath (Fratercula arctica) · gd peata-ruadh (Fratercula arctica) · de Hundlund (F. corniculata) (Fratercula arctica) · ro furtunar (Fratercula arctica) · kw popa (Fratercula arctica) · sh tupik (Fratercula arctica) · tr fratercula (Fratercula arctica) · sl njórka (Fratercula arctica) · pl maskonur (Fratercula arctica) · de Lund (Fratercula arctica) · de Gelbschopflund (F. cirrhata) (Fratercula arctica) · cmn 海鸚 /海鹦 (Fratercula arctica) · ga fuipín (Fratercula arctica) · tr deniz papağanı (Fratercula arctica) · ca fraret (Fratercula arctica) · de Lundevogel (Fratercula arctica) · fr macareux (Fratercula arctica) · nb lunde (Fratercula arctica) · id pufin (Fratercula arctica) · sco ailsa cock (Fratercula arctica) · hu lunda (Fratercula arctica) · da lunde (Fratercula arctica) · bg кайра (Fratercula arctica) · es frailecillo (Fratercula arctica) · bg тупик (Fratercula arctica) · cs papuchalk (Fratercula arctica) · gl arao (Fratercula arctica) · fo lundi (Fratercula arctica) · gd buthaid (Fratercula arctica) · gv pibbin (Fratercula arctica) · id beo laut (Fratercula arctica) · sv lunnefågel (Fratercula arctica) · ru ту́пик (Fratercula arctica) · sk mníšik (Fratercula arctica) · yue 海鸚 /海鹦 (Fratercula arctica)