Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Any of a group of medium-sized albatrosses in the genus Thalassarche.
Examples
“He also came upon a mollymawk rookery on the south-western point of the island, and managed to take one of the birds by hand.”
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
“During the heavy weather, Mother Carey's chickens only were seen, but, as the wind abated, the majestic wandering albatross, the sooty albatross and the mollymawk followed in our wake.”
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mollymawk’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
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Folksy Compounds
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
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An Intermediate Course of Random Pala...
A third uncategorized list of words that catch my eye or fancy. Common or regional names and terms, names of foods and food preparation utensils, bird, plant and animal names, jargon words, and od...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
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Dutchly things
Words having some sort of Dutch origin, probably boring to everyone but me — I'm currently browsing 2,422 entries having "Dutch" in their definitions/etymologies, the best of which should fin...
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avivamagnolia
Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar.
Alternative forms: mollymawk, malmock, mollemock, mallemocke
Origin: Sw. Mallemucke the stormy petrel Jan 18, 2009
chained_bear See also mallemawk. Mar 6, 2008
chained_bear "...there were others that he could not identify with any certainty, birds to which he sailors gave the genreal name of mollymawks."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 147 Mar 4, 2008