Puffling vs Ruffling - What's the difference?
puffling | ruffling |
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 action of the verb ruffle
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3
, Late in the morning I wak'd first; and observing my lover slept profoundly, softly disengag'd myself from his arms, scarcely daring to breathe for fear of shortening his repose; my cap, my hair, my shift, were all in disorder from the rufflings I had undergone}}
