guillemot

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The guillemot is a diving bird found in the Northern seas, while the penguin may be looked upon as representing the divers of the Southern Ocean.

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  1. noun Any of several auks of the genus Cepphus, having black plumage with white markings.

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  • Another involuntary visitor was a guillemot, which was brought under similar circumstances as the solan goose. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • We've got a pair of guest list spots reserved for the first person to email inbox@gapersblock. com telling us what a guillemot is and a link to a photo of one.
  • Sitting on a boat and watching a raven come and steal guillemot eggs: how cool is that? —  Heraclitean Fire
  • We have everything here, from the albatross to the gull to the guillemot to the owl to the sparrow to the pigeon. —  Song, by Toad
  • Two thirds of guillemot chicks monitored at a nesting site on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth were killed by neighbouring birds, which either pecked them to death or hurled them off the cliffs.
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  1. French, diminutive of the personal name Guillaume.

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  1. from French guillemot, apparently adapted from Bret, gwelan = Welsh gwylan = Cornish gullan (later English gull), a gull, sea-mew (cf. Welsh gwylog, the guillemot, also chwilog (accommodation to chwil, whirling?), the lesser guillemot, later prob. English dial. willock, the guillemot), + Old French moette, French mouette, a sea-mew, of Teutonic origin (see mew). The F. word is thus (apparently) a cumulative compound, consisting of a Celtic word, gull, explained by its Teutonic synonym, mew.
 

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/ˈgɪlɛmət/
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