Puffin vs Muffin - What's the difference?
puffin | muffin |
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 :
(British) a type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten
(US) A type of individual bread such as corn, bran, banana or zucchini bread often sliced and spread with butter, etc before being eaten.
(especially US) (informally) A cupcake without frosting, but sometimes glazed.
(computing) a mechanism used in the analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine
(slang) a term of endearment
(sexual slang) a vulva
(baseball, slang) a less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball
(slang) a charming, attractive young man
As nouns the difference between puffin and muffin
is that puffin is the young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food while muffin is a type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten.puffin
English
(wikipedia puffin)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
