Puffling vs Puffin - What's the difference?
puffling | puffin | Derived terms |
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.
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 :
Puffin is a derived term of puffling.
As nouns the difference between puffling and puffin
is that puffling is a young puffin while puffin is the young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.puffling
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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.