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/ˈpʌfɪn/ · noun
(now obsolete) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food..
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.
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Puffin means (now obsolete) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food..
Common synonyms include pope, sea-parrot.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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