Perhaps you were out of sorts with life when you met him, but one cannot be angry when one looks at a Penguin Person. But do you say that the original bird is not like that at all, that he is the most stupid of fellows? Ah! then you have never seen a penguin swim! He is grace and beauty and skill in the water. If it were only his stupidity that made us smile, not he, but the hen, would be the most amusing of God's creatures. It is something more subtle, more personal, than that. It can only be described as Penguinity. Penguinity! The word is not in the dictionaries; it is beyond the pale of the purists; in coining it I am fully aware that I violate the canons of the Harvard English Department, that I fly in the face of philology, waving a red rag. Yet I do it gladly, assertively, for I have confidence that some day, when Penguin Persons have taken their rightful place in the world's estimation, the world will not be able to dispense with my little word, which will then overthrow the dictionary despotism and enter unchallenged the leather strongholds of Webster and Murray. Walter Prichard Eaton (1878-1957) in "Penguin persons & peppermints"
Wortart: Substantiv, maskulin Worttrennung: Pin|gu|in Bedeutung: flugunfähiger, aufrecht gehender, im Wasser geschickt schwimmender Vogel der Antarktis mit flossenähnlichen Flügeln und meist schwarzem, auf dem Bauch weißem Gefieder Lautschrift: [ˈpɪŋguiːn] Herkunft: ungeklärt duden.de
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