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puffin vs penguin

puffin

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noun

  1. 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.

This may be because when he started mixing up a bucket in the new kitchen, billows of dust began puffing under the doors onto my new upstairs carpets.

A puffing kind of man

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penguin

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noun

  1. 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.

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