Penguin vs Baka - What's the difference?
penguin | baka |
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, .
A member of a nomadic ethnic group inhabiting parts of western and central Africa.
As nouns the difference between penguin and baka
is that 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 while baka is a member of a nomadic ethnic group inhabiting parts of western and central africa.penguin
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 [...].