fairy penguin

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noun

a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coastAlso called: little penguin, blue penguin, korora

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Words nearby fairy penguin

fairyism, fairy lamp, fairyland, fairy lights, fairy lily, fairy penguin, fairy primrose, fairy ring, fairy shrimp, fairy stone, fairy swallow

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How to use fairy penguin in a sentence

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But when the darkness closes in, we actually run to fairy tales and fables.
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Actually, rather like Gruber, we feel rather icky about fairy tales.
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Not that the demonstration had anything to do with this couple, whom Sarah seems to see as a fairy tale come to life.
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Were the fairy-tale true it really would shame the affluent west.
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The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.
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The Elizabethan pipes were so small that now when they are dug up in Ireland the poor call them 'fairy pipes' from their tininess.
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Spenser in his Fairy Queen makes one of the characters include it with other herbs celebrated for medicinal qualities.
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She had just come to forty-nine, and was wondering if she might remind the fairy father of his duty, when the door opened.
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Many years ago I collected together a large number of these 'Fairy Pipes' from all parts of the kingdom.
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