{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈpɛŋgwən" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/penguin.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/penguin.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/penguin.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "Unknown;1 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 page." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Any of several flightless sea birds, of 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. \n1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, I:\nHere 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" }, { "mean": "(obsolete or historical) An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.\n1772 March, Account of the Settlement of the Malouines, in The Gentleman's and London Magazine, page 166:\n*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.\n1885, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York:\nMore 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.\"" }, { "mean": "(slang) A nun (association through appearance, because of the often black-and-white habit)." }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.\n1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 82,\nThese 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." }, { "mean": "(UK, military, slang) A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.\n1942, Hermann Hagedorn, Sunward I've Climbed (page 143)\nAlthough 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' \n1994, Monty Berger, Invasions without tears: the story of Canada's top-scoring Spitfire wing in Europe during the Second World War‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, page xi:Notwithstanding his elevated status as the wing’s Senior Intelligence Officer, Monty, too, was a “penguin,” equal in that respect to an armament assistant, airframe mechanic, pigeon loftsman or any of the seventy-odd ground trades listed by the Royal Canadian Air Force at the war’s end.\n2015 June 1, Kate Christie, In the Company of Women‎, Bella Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:She may have been a “penguin”—an Air Force service member who didn't fly—but it sure beat being at home, as Brady had pointed out.\n2019 November 5, Derek Esp, An Adventure in Education: The Autobiography of an Accidental Career in Education‎, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:This was to be my home for three months where ground officer cadets, referred to colloquially as ‘penguins’ were trained." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Penguin in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.\n\n\n\n\n -->\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=penguinoldid=71648329\"\n\t\tCategories: English terms with unknown etymologiesEnglish terms derived from WelshEnglish terms derived from LatinEnglish 2-syllable wordsEnglish terms with IPA pronunciationEnglish terms with audio linksRhymes:English/ɛŋɡwɪnRhymes:English/ɛŋɡwɪn/2 syllablesRhymes:English/ɪŋɡwɪnRhymes:English/ɪŋɡwɪn/2 syllablesEnglish lemmasEnglish nounsEnglish countable nounsEnglish terms with obsolete sensesEnglish terms with historical sensesEnglish slangen:JugglingBritish Englishen:MilitaryEnglish terms with quotationsEnglish refractory feminine rhymesen:Bromeliadsen:PenguinsHidden categories: Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)Requests for translations into AbkhazRequests for translations into AdygheRequests for translations into AghwanRequests for translations into AklanonTerms with manual transliterations different from the automated onesTerms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/yueTerms with redundant transliterationsTerms with redundant transliterations/cmnTerms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/wuuRequests for translations into MaoriRequests for translations into TibetanRequests for translations into Zazaki\n\t\n\n\n\n\tNavigation menu\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tPersonal tools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tNot logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNamespaces\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tEntryDiscussion\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tEnglish\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tViews\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tReadEditHistory\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tMore\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\t
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