puffinとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʌfɪn/
• 韻: -ʌfɪn

名詞

puffin (複数形 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-colored beak. [from 17th c.]
   • 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, The White Seal:

     Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas–the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and–so Limmershin told me–for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.

同意語

• sea-parrot
• (英国用法, regional) pope

派生語

関連する語

• fraterculine