Ducks vs Penguin - What's the difference?
ducks | penguin |
English plurals
(poker slang) A pair of twos.
(British, chiefly, Northern England, used vocatively) Dear (used as a pet name).
(nautical) The light clothes worn by sailors in hot climates.
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.
* 1638 , (Thomas Herbert), Some Yeares Travels , I:
(slang) A nun (because of the black and white habit).
(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.
(botany) A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, .
As nouns the difference between ducks and penguin
is that ducks is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals while penguin is 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.ducks
English
Noun
(head)- Hello ducks, how are you today?
Synonyms
* (pet name) dear, duck, ducky, lovepenguin
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 [...].