penguin

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈpeŋ.wɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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 plumage.
    — 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 […]
  2. Alternative form of pinguin. alt-of,alternative
    — 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.
  3. An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere. historical,obsolete
    — 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.
  4. A nun. slang
    — 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.
  5. 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.
  6. A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft. UK,slang
    — Although it is a permanent R.A.F. station (pre-war, that is), we meander about, even in the Mess, in battle dress and flying boots, sweaters, etc., much to the disgust of some of the more dignified 'penguins' […]

词形变化

penguins plural pinguin alternative,obsolete penguins plural pinguin alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Adelie penguin African penguin banded penguin brush-tailed penguin Chatham Island penguin Chatham Islands penguin chinstrap penguin crested penguin embrace the penguin emperor penguin erect-crested penguin fairy penguin Fiordland penguin Galapagos penguin gentoo penguin Humboldt penguin jackass penguin king penguin little penguin macaroni penguin Magellanic penguin penguinarium penguin diagram penguinery penguinese penguinesque penguinish penguinlike penguinone penguinry penguin suit penguin trainer Ridgen's penguin rockhopper penguin royal penguin Snares penguin Waitaha penguin white-flippered penguin yellow-eyed penguin

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *kʷennom
Proto-Brythonic *penn
Welsh pen?
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.?
Proto-Celtic *windos
Proto-Brythonic *gwɨnn
Welsh gwyn?
Proto-Indo-European *peyh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-influ.?
Latin pinguisder.?
English penguin
Uncertain. First attested in the 16th century in reference to the auk of the Northern hemisphere; the word was later applied to the superficially similar birds of the Southern hemisphere (as was woggin). Possibly from Welsh pen (“head”) and gwyn (“white”), or from Latin pinguis (“fat”). See citations and the Wikipedia article.
Noun sense 3 originates from the often black-and-white habit worn by nuns, which resemble the bird's colors.
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