Noun

1. Any of various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly coloured beak.
   • 1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, The White Seal

     Naturally the Chickies and the Gooverooskies and the Epatkas–the Burgomaster Gulls and the Kittiwakes and the Puffins, who are always looking for a chance to be rude, took up the cry, and–so Limmershin told me–for nearly five minutes you could not have heard a gun fired on Walrus Islet.