puffin vs penguin
Definitions
noun
- any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
Examples
A battery powers an atomizer which is triggered by "puffing" on the cartridge of the device.
He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car.
Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach.
Definitions
noun
- short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers
Examples
It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for.
Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers.
April 1974 Penguin reprint with a cover design by David Pelham.
