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单词 puffinry
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puffinryn.

Brit. /ˈpʌfᵻnri/, U.S. /ˈpəfənri/
Inflections: Plural puffinries, puffinrys.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: puffin n.1, -ry suffix.
Etymology: < puffin n.1 + -ry suffix.
(A place occupied by) a breeding colony of puffins.
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1954 J. M. M. Fisher & R. M. Lockley Sea-birds iii. 64 There are seven separate puffin-slopes on St. Kilda each of which is larger than..even the largest puffinry in the..Shiant Isles.
1963 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles XII. 158 Between Caithness and Banff there are no puffinries until we reach the Banff–Buchan border.
1992 New Brunswick Outdoor Adventure Guide 19/2 Machias Seal Island... One of the few puffinrys in the world where visitors can go ashore.
2001 Scotland on Sunday (Nexis) 21 Oct. 40 The puffinry was abandoned. The birds were already at sea for the summer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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