• Puffling

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈpÊŒflɪŋ/

    Origin

    From puffin + -ling.

    Full definition of puffling

    Noun

    puffling

    (plural pufflings)
    1. 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.
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