mollymawk
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English
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Etymology
Ultimately from Dutch mallemok (from malle (“foolish”)), probably influenced by German Mallemucke. Compare Japanese 信天翁 (ahōdori, “albatross, foolish bird”).
Noun
mollymawk (plural mollymawks)
- A fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis).
- Any of various similar seabirds, now especially an albatross of the genus Thalassarche.
- 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 210:
- She chatters, mainly to Simon, pointing out a circling mollymawk, a line of shags winging away from Maukiekie, a penguin that surfaces not far from the boat.
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References
mollymawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Diomedeidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Diomedeidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - “mollymawk”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
