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US
/ˈpəˌfɪn/
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[ UK /pˈʌfɪn/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌfɪn/ ]
NOUN
- any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
How To Use puffin In A Sentence
- A battery powers an atomizer which is triggered by "puffing" on the cartridge of the device. Health and Medical Online News, Reports and Information
- 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
- After a lot of huffing and puffing, he eventually gave in to our request.
- He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car.
- He came puffing up the stairs.
- He stood in the hallway puffing on it for a few seconds to make sure it was fully alight.
- 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
- I could hear Milly huffing and puffing with the exertion of it.
- I turned around and there, a few hundred feet away, was our government minder, Li Wong Su, huffing and puffing toward us