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.
雙語例句
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.