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  • obscure nautical term for an albatross

    June 4, 2009

  • WeirdNet likes gooney.

    June 4, 2009

  • and Melville would give it the same with knobs on.

    though who knows--there's talk of flagrant typographical errors in the printing of Moby-Dick

    June 4, 2009

  • "We all leaned forward to hear.

    "A bird," I said. "A cloud. A goney or a cormorant."

    He said it was an eye with wings."

    Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch, p 111 of the Doubleday hardcover edition

    January 11, 2012