Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various stout, flightless aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having flipperlike wings and webbed feet adapted for swimming and diving, short scalelike feathers, and white underparts with a dark back.
- noun Obsolete The great auk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wild pineapple, Bromelia Pinguin.
- noun The great auk, Alca impennis; the original sense.
- noun Any species of the family Spheniscidæ or Aptenodytidæ. (See
Spheniscidæ for technical characters.)
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under
jackass . - noun (Bot.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (
Bromelia Pinguin ) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges. - noun (Zoöl.) the great auk. See
Auk .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang A
nun (because of the black and whitehabit ). - noun juggling A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
- noun botany A
spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Second to the penguin is the kelp gull Larus dominicanus with 6,000 active nests.
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Mario Bros., including Mario in penguin suit, amigurumi by Mindy, who has various items on sale at Etsy.
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The outer shape apparently evolved before some microscopic changes that may play a role in penguin's underwater prowess.
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The royal penguin is the largest known species of penguin.
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Berkeley Breathed explains how a certain penguin was able to deflect criticism and controversy.
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Monday, June 22 2009 club penguin is sooooooooooooo much better than Free Reals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Maggie's new penguin is made in the USA by workers at Opportunity Threads, a 100% worker-owned cooperative in
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Berkeley Breathed explains how a certain penguin was able to deflect criticism and controversy.
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Maggie's new penguin is made in the USA by workers at Opportunity Threads, a 100% worker-owned cooperative in
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The party penguin is starting the party up a little late due to a hectic day of work and then a sushi party for the Chicago Abortion Fund.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
bilby commented on the word penguin
All hail the emperor
November 23, 2007
vanishedone commented on the word penguin
The great auk, now extinct.
Also, says the O.E.D., a rare verb meaning 'to publish as a Penguin book'.
February 1, 2009
dontcry commented on the word penguin
The Penguins are a hockey team from Pittsburgh.
Go Steelers.
February 1, 2009
yarb commented on the word penguin
"What outlandish beings are these? Erect as men, but hardly as symmetrical, they stand all round the rock like sculptured caryatides, supporting the next range of eaves above. Their bodies are grotesquely misshapen; their bills short; their feet seemingly legless; while the members at their sides are neither fin, wing, nor arm. And truly neither fish, flesh, nor fowl is the penguin; as an edible, pertaining neither to Carnival nor Lent; without exception the most ambiguous and least lovely creature yet discovered by man. Though dabbling in all three elements, and indeed possessing some rudimental claims to all, the penguin is at home in none. On land it stumps; afloat it sculls; in the air it flops. As if ashamed of her failure, Nature keeps this ungainly child hidden away at the ends of the earth, in the Straits of Magellan, and on the abased sea-story of Rodondo."
- Melville, The Encantadas, Sketch Third
September 20, 2011
bilby commented on the word penguin
Hardly as symmetrical?
September 21, 2011
yarb commented on the word penguin
Haven't you noticed how awfully asymmetric penguins are?
September 21, 2011
yarb commented on the word penguin
Sometimes I think of Melville as the evil twin of Charles Sanders Peirce.
September 21, 2011
bilby commented on the word penguin
All the penguins in my neighbourhood are very symmetrical.
September 21, 2011
bilby commented on the word penguin
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September 21, 2011
bilby commented on the word penguin
A bit lopsided, perhaps due to the way Bugnik displays photrealistic ASCII Sphenisciformes, but very symmetrical.
September 21, 2011
yarb commented on the word penguin
Perhaps Melville was looking at penguins the wrong way, i.e. horizontally.
n.b. that is a handsome, and very symmetrical, penguin.
September 21, 2011
yarb commented on the word penguin
What is its name?
September 21, 2011
bilby commented on the word penguin
Apsley. He says he is horizontal quite some of the time and that Melville should have looked harder.
September 21, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word penguin
Thank you yarb--I'm sure most people would assume CSP was the evil one. But we know better, don't we?
September 21, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word penguin
Bilby--surely you don't mean Rick Apsley.
September 21, 2011
bilby commented on the word penguin
No I don't. Apsley was named after the brave Antarctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard.
And stop calling me Shirley.
September 21, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word penguin
Shirleybilby: Here’s a non-breaking space: “ ”. I’ve been using them for indentation ever since we lost the blockquote tag. (It’s a flimsy substitute therefor, but adequate for short lines that won’t wrap.)Here’s Apsley looking almost into the camera:
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(I’ve got some other widths around here somewhere . . . .)
September 24, 2011
Dan337 commented on the word penguin
Ah. I found a thinner one (“ ”), propping up a table leg. With some cropping, your fledgy friend can use this for his visa:
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September 24, 2011
bilby commented on the word penguin
Apsley is so pleased.
September 24, 2011
yarb commented on the word penguin
I'm sure he will live Apsley ever after.
September 25, 2011
sionnach commented on the word penguin
Would this be the appropriate place to mention the headline I saw recently on "Headlines that suck"?
Pampered 'Happy Feet' Penguin "Eaten by Killer Whale"
September 25, 2011
leaden commented on the word penguin
Yes. Linkified, with the caveat that it’s more of a those-dumb-scientists-are-wasting-our-money humor piece than an actual news item (e.g., the subtitle is “Happy Feet Penguin Goes Missing... Nom Nom Nom Nom”, and the linked sources cited are an editorial and an article in The Sun. The bit where they shove the penguin down the ramp is a little funny). You might find more useful information here.
September 26, 2011
sionnach commented on the word penguin
See also bizarre spheniscidine confectionery dispenser diorama and bizarre spheniscidine confectionery dispenser videorama.
September 26, 2011
alexz commented on the word penguin
" Penguin In ornithology a name first given by the Dutch to the Aptenodytes of the south to indicate the oily nature of their fat See Aptenodytes " -A technological dictionary: explaining the terms of the arts, sciences ... page 552
By W. M. Buchanan http://books.google.ca/books?id=BzRRAAAAYAAJ 1846
July 10, 2013