puffin

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And by the way, Toronto Star, let's be clear: a puffin is an auk, not a duck as your web site stated.

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  1. noun Any of several sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda of northern regions, characteristically having black and white plumage and a vertically flattened, triangular bill that is brightly colored during breeding season.

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  • While the puffin is still flying on the site, it is no longer defecating on Dion, who said he accepted Harper's apology. cbc —  Jay Currie
  • With his booming Scottish brogue coming through a Winnipeg hotel room speaker phone, Finley let the prime minister know that a puffin-pooping web graphic had been posted and wiped off the Internet. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • And by the way, Toronto Star, let's be clear: a puffin is an auk, not a duck as your web site stated. —  Gen X at 40
  • With his war room's puffin-pooping gaffe far behind him, Harper entered Quebec. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • First it was the crapping puffin, then the whole Elizabeth May stuff, and blocking reporters from from answering questions, now its insulting the Father of a dead soldier? —  Ranting Owl
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  1. Middle English poffoun, puffon, perhaps from puf, puff; see puff.

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  1. Said to be so called from its puffed-out beak; from puff + -in, apparently a diminutive termination. The New Latin Puffinus, also Puphinus, is from English
 

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