Muffling vs Puffling - What's the difference?
muffling | puffling |
(mostly, in the plural) That which muffles; heavy clothing.
* 1839 , Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art (volume 37, page 220)
A young puffin.
*2006 , The Observer , 7 May 2006:
*:Visit Iceland this August and you could help to rescue pufflings - baby puffins - who get confused by town street lights and crash into towns when leaving their burrows to fly over the Atlantic for the first time.
*2007 , Katherine Zecca, A Puffin's Year :
*:Whee-er-er, whee-er-er! the puffling cries because he is hungry. Mama puffin arrives and lays her mouthful of live fish close to the front of the burrow.
*2012 , Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Birds: A spiritual field guide , p. 155:
*:Both parents feed the infant puffling until it is very fat, then leave the chick, who must make its own way to the sea.
As nouns the difference between muffling and puffling
is that muffling is (mostly|in the plural) that which muffles; heavy clothing while puffling is a young puffin.As a verb muffling
is .muffling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- It was not until he had ascertained that all his mufflings were adjusted, and his coat-collar brought as near his hat as was consistent with leaving any of his face out