Gentoo

English + Penguin Etymology Of Anglo-Indian origin (17th century), apparently a borrowing from en pt gentio heathen (compare en gentile pagan). Noun en historical A non-Muslim inhabitant of India, a Hindu; specifically, in Southern India, an ethnic-Telugu. en 1786 w:Richard Payne Knight On the Worship of Priapus XI The Greeks, and all the Celtic nations, accordingly, burned the bodies of the dead, as the Gentoos do at this day; while the Egyptians, among whom fuel was extremely scarce, placed them in pyramidal monuments, which were the symbols of fire; hence come those prodigious structures which still adorn that country. 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Spiritual Laws” in Essays (First Series), Boston: James Munroe, p.133, The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing, unless it have an outside badge, — some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat, or Calvinistic prayer- meeting, or philanthropic society, or a great donation, or a high office, or, any how, some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat. The gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua species), a species of penguin. Proper noun en historical The Telugu language. Further reading 368 Anagrams en egnoot gone to en Penguins