Puffing vs Puffin - What's the difference?
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(United States) Leaving a car engine running unattended, especially in cold weather to warm it up.
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The act of one who puffs.
A puffy ornament.
* 1825 , The Ladies' Monthly Museum (volume 21, page 50)
(legal) An opinion or judgment, often made by the seller of property to a potential buyer, that is not made as a representation of fact.
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 :
As nouns the difference between puffing and puffin
is that puffing is the act of one who puffs while puffin is the young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.As a verb puffing
is present participle of lang=en.puffing
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the puffings and pantings of a man running to catch a train
- Evening dresses are trimmed in a variety of ways, with puffings of crape, fringes, and ornaments, of the richest patterns
puffin
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(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.