Definitions
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- noun (Zoöl.) A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also
bachelor , because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.
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- noun A "bachelor seal"; a young male
seal which is prevented from mating by its herd's older males (mated bulls defending their territory). - noun Collective or regular plural form of
holluschick .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were called the holluschickie -- the bachelors -- and there were perhaps two or three hundred thousand of them at Novastoshnah alone.
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900
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They were called the holluschickie, -- the bachelors, -- and there were perhaps two or three hundred thousand of them at Novastoshnah alone.
The Jungle Book. 1893
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"Our gunner was talking about 'holluschickie'?" he said.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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"The holluschickie are the tamest, gentlest creatures in the world.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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He called them the holluschickie, or something like that.
Chapter 30 2010
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The day had been dull and overcast, but the sun now burst through the clouds, a welcome omen, and shone upon the curving beach where together we had dared the lords of the harem and slain the holluschickie.
Chapter 39 2010
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A quarter of a mile inland we came upon the holluschickie — sleek young bulls, living out the loneliness of their bachelorhood and gathering strength against the day when they would fight their way into the ranks of the Benedicts.
Chapter 30 2010
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“The holluschickie haul out by themselves, and Dr. Jordan says that paths are left between the harems, and that as long as the holluschickie keep strictly to the path they are unmolested by the masters of the harem.”
Chapter 30 2010
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It is mutilation or death for a holluschickie to put so much as a flipper on a rookery.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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This path through the rookery gives just room for two holluschickie to pass.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
qms commented on the word holluschickie
He dreams of blubber, salty and sticky,
But a bachelor seal can't be picky.
His options are few
So a selkie will do.
All gray in the dark to the holluschickie.
July 29, 2014
bilby commented on the word holluschickie
Ooh, great work. Will be long remembered in the canon of holluschickie verse!
July 29, 2014
qms commented on the word holluschickie
Such homage has always been my ambition. Do you suppose they maintain a Poet's Corner on some guano-laden rock?
July 30, 2014