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Buffin vs Puffin - What's the difference?

buffin | puffin |

As nouns the difference between buffin and puffin

is that buffin is (obsolete) a sort of coarse material while puffin is .

buffin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A sort of coarse material.
  • buffin gowns
    (Webster 1913)

    puffin

    English

    (wikipedia puffin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica ).
  • Any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula'' and ''Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-colored beak.
  • * 1894 , (Rudyard Kipling), '', ''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.

    Synonyms

    * sea-parrot * (qualifier) pope

    Derived terms

    * Atlantic puffin * horned puffin * puffinet * puffinry * puffling * tufted puffin