penguin n.1
(US, mainly juv.) a nun or priest.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxviii 10/1: penguin: Nun. So named because of their black and white habits. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Blood Brothers 76: The goddamn nuns were worse [...] Them fuckin’ fascist penguins is somethin’ else, hah? | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Who’s Been Sleeping in my Bed 51: I was there once with Holy Joe O’Malley, our parish priest [...] An’ y’know wha’? The lousy friggin’ penguin lifted up the curtain an’ had a good look at me. | |
| Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 39: Penguins Nuns. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
In compounds
(US black) an inter-racial colony of African Americans and white couples, who, after marrying in Europe, had been forced to flee Hitler.
 | N.Y. Amsterdam Star-News 14 Nov. 16: The ‘penguin colony’ in W. 147th St. made up of Negroes and whites who married in Europe and who are today refugees until Hitler is pulled down. |
(US black) a marriage between an African American and a white person.
| N.Y. Amsterdam News 27 Apr. 13: ‘Penguin’ marriages of course have been the way the ball bounces throughout U.S. history. |