puffling

noun
/ˈpʌflɪŋ/US

Etymology

From puff(in) + -ling.

  1. inherited from poffin
  2. suffixed as puffling — “puffin + ling

Definitions

  1. A young puffin.

    • These fish are brought to the fluffy little Puffins in their snug nests inside of a burrow or under a slab of rock. The babies are called “Pufflings.”
    • 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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for puffling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA