penguin

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/ˈpɛŋ.ɡwɪn/

noun 5name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, cute, cute, due, last, sole

The cute penguin waddled across the ice toward its waiting chick.

VERB + PENGUIN

am, called, feeling, keep, like, liked, love, walk

I really liked the penguin we saw at the zoo last summer.

PENGUIN + NOUN

auk, bird, bondage, colony, footprints, picture, thomas, tom's

The penguin colony on the Antarctic island had grown to over ten thousand birds.

PREP.

from, in

We watched the penguin diving in the icy water at the zoo.

ADV.

really

The kids thought the penguin at the zoo was really cute and funny.

Definitions

noun

Any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plu

Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins (white-head in Welch) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves […]

An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.

This last species of penguin, or auk, seems to be the same with the alca cirrhata of Dr. Pallis, Spicileg. Zool. Fasc. v. p. 7. tab. i. & v. fig. 1–3. F.

More than a hundred years ago, for example, was seen the last of the great wingless penguins or auks, which early writers quaintly called " wobble-birds."

A nun.

Jake (John Belushi): What are we doing here? Elwood (Dan Aykroyd): You promised you'd visit the penguin the day you got out. Jake: Yeah. So, I lied to her. Elwood:You can't lie to a nun. We gotta go in and visit the penguin.

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.

A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.

These productive patches, and the houses, were each surrounded by a fence, made of a prickly shrub, called the Pinguin, which propagates itself with great rapidity.

name

A town in Central Coast Council, northern Tasmania, Australia.

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Idioms & Phrases

embrace the penguin

To switch one's operating system to Linux.

Good idea to embrace the penguin and let go of the Bill.

Example Bank

Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins (white-head in Welch) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves […]

Wiktionary

This last species of penguin, or auk, seems to be the same with the alca cirrhata of Dr. Pallis, Spicileg. Zool. Fasc. v. p. 7. tab. i. & v. fig. 1–3. F.

Wiktionary

More than a hundred years ago, for example, was seen the last of the great wingless penguins or auks, which early writers quaintly called " wobble-birds."

Wiktionary

This baby penguin is too cute!

Tatoeba · #1848

The penguin was expelled from the group.

Tatoeba · #680883

A penguin is a bird that cannot fly.

Tatoeba · #1406501

Usage Notes

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In some senses, penguin is marked as obsolete, slang, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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