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buffin

English

Etymology

Named for its resemblance to buff leather.

Noun

buffin (countable and uncountable, plural buffins)

  1. (obsolete) A sort of coarse material.
    buffin gowns

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puffin

English

Etymology

From Middle English poffin, poffoun, puffon, apparently from puff + -ing, or perhaps ultimately from Middle Cornish (compare Breton poc'han (“puffin”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?p?f?n/
  • Rhymes: -?f?n

Noun

puffin (plural puffins)

  1. (now obsolete) The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. [14th–19th c.]
  2. The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak. [from 17th c.]
    Synonyms: (Britain, regional) pope, sea-parrot
  3. (entomology) Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
  4. (obsolete) A puffball.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • fraterculine

Translations

French

Etymology

From English puffin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /py.f??/

Noun

puffin m (plural puffins)

  1. shearwater

Further reading

  • “puffin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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