• n. 善知鳥；海鸚；海鴨之類

可能來自puff,吹氣，-in,小詞后綴。因這種鳥圓鼓鼓的身體而得名。

puffin

puffin: [14] Puffin probably goes back to one of the ancestral Celtic languages of the British Isles – perhaps Cornish. Its English guise is no doubt due to its plump appearance, which suggested associations with puff [13] (a word which originated as an imitation of the sound of puffing).

puffin (n.)

North Atlantic seabird, mid-14c., perhaps connected with puff on notion of appearance, or from some Celtic word (earliest association is with Cornwall and Scilly), and altered by influence of puff.

1. The Hatfield Puffin is a modern aeroplane, but its designer, Mr. John Wimpenny , is finding it difficult to get it off the ground.

哈特費爾德·普芬是一架時髦的飛機, 但設(shè)計這架飛機的人約翰·溫佩尼先生感到很難使它飛離地面.

來自《用法詞典》

2. N Pacific puffin having a large yellow plume over each eye.

北太平洋的海鸚,每只眼睛上方有一簇黃色的羽毛.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)