English Dictionary

penguin

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɛŋɡwɪn/

名詞

歴史的 廃用 俗語 イギリス英語

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.

日本語の意味

ペンギン：南半球に生息する、飛ぶことができない海鳥。一般的に直立した姿勢で歩き、短い脚を持ち、黒と白という特徴的な羽毛を持つ。

A penguin waddled across the icy shore, its black and white feathers gleaming in the weak sun.

ペンギンが氷の海岸をよちよちと歩き、白と黒の羽毛が弱い日差しに輝いていた。

意味（1）

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.

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 […]

意味（2）

(obsolete or historical) 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.

意味（3）

(slang) A nun (association through appearance, because of the often black-and-white habit).

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

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.

意味（6）

(UK, military, slang) A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.

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' […]

penguins （ plural ）