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penguin: penguin: [16] Penguin is one of the celebrated mystery words of English etymology. It first appears towards the end of the 16th century (referring to the ‘great auk’ as well as to the ‘penguin’) in accounts of voyages to the southern oceans, but no one has ever ascertained where it came from. A narrative of 1582 noted ‘The countrymen call them Penguins (which seemeth to be a Welsh name)’, and in 1613 John Selden speculated that the name came from Welsh pen gwyn ‘white head’.

Etymologists since have not been able to come up with a better guess than this, but it is at odds with the fact that the great auk had a mainly black head, and so do penguins. The earliest known reference to the word (from 1578) mentions the birds being found on an ‘island named Penguin’, off Newfoundland, so it could be that it was originally the name of the island (perhaps ‘white (i.e. snow-covered) headland’) rather than of the bird.

However, a further objection to this theory is that a combination based on Welsh pen gwyn would have produced penwyn, not penguin.
penguin (n.): 1570s, originally used of the great auk of Newfoundland (now extinct), shift in meaning to the Antarctic bird (which looks something like it, found by Drake in Magellan"s Straits in 1578) is from 1580s. Of unknown origin, though often asserted to be from Welsh pen "head" (see pen-) + gwyn "white" (see Gwendolyn), but Barnhart says the proposed formation is not proper Welsh. The great auk had a large white patch between its bill and eye. The French and Breton versions of the word ultimately are from English.

词态变化

复数 penguins;

权威造句

1. He walked with an awkward gait like a penguin.: 他走路的步子难看得就像企鹅.

2. The penguin is a flightless bird.: 企鹅是一种不会飞的鸟.

3. When I was a student, Penguin published several collections of classic articles on economics and business.: 当我是一名学生时, 企鹅(Penguin)出版了几部关于经济学和商学的经典文章集.

4. There was this running gag about a penguin ( = they kept telling penguin jokes ).: 人们不断讲关于一只企鹅的笑话.

5. There was this running gag about a penguin.: 人们不断讲关于一只企鹅的笑话

近反义词

adelie penguin 企鹅

antarctic penguin 南极企鹅

king penguin 王企鹅,棹鸥...

emperor penguin 皇企鹅

penguin egg 企鹅蛋

相似短语

adelie penguin phr. 阿德利企鹅，是南极洲的常见企鹅，平均身高三十至五十厘米，重四点五公斤

crested penguin phr. 冠企鹅属

king penguin phr. 国王企鹅；帝企鹅

jackass penguin phr. 黑脚企鹅（生活在非洲西南岸的企鹅）

penguin suit n. 太空衣

emperor penguin n. 皇企鹅

rockhopper penguin n. 跳岩企鹅跳岩企鹅是属于“长冠企鹅”（Crested Penguin）体型最小的一种，成年时身长可长到５０多厘米，体重可达３公斤。这种企鹅脾气暴躁，主要生活在岩石耸立、高低不平的新西兰亚

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penguin 【胖滚】企鹅

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