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mollymawk, mollymauk
Also 7–8 mallemucke, 8 mallemuck, 9 mallemak, -muk(ke, -maulk, mallemoke, -mock, -muk, malmock, mollemoke, mollimock.
[a. Du. mallemok, f. mal foolish + mok gull; cf. the synonymous mallemeeuw. Hence G. mallemuck (1675), F. malamoque.]
The fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis; also applied to other similar or nearly related birds. Cf. mollyhawk.
1694tr. Marten's Voy. Spitzb. (1711) 100 Of the Mallemucke. a1705Ray Syn. method. Avium (1713) 130 Wagellus Cornubiensium..Mallemuck. 1776Pennant Zool. II. 464. 1815 J. Laing Voy. Spitzbergen (1822) 81 The Greenlanders account the flesh of the Mallemukke good food. 1832C. M. Goodridge Voy. South Seas 20 Various birds..such as the Albatross, Nellys, Peeos, Mollimocks [etc.]. 1835Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. iii. 38 There were some shearwaters and mollemokes about the ship. 1880Standard 20 May 3 Flocks of mallemokes. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 103 Cape pigeons and mollymawks. 1898Spectator 13 Aug. 208 The ‘mallymoke’, which comes nearest to the albatross in size and beauty. 1913H. K. Swann Dict. Eng. & Folk-Names Brit. Birds 153 Mallemuck, an old Dutch-mariner's name for the Fulmar. Now corrupted into ‘Molly-mawk’, and applied to various other species such as the Black-browed Albatross. 1933Geogr. Jrnl. LXXXI. 217 The mollymauk is a wild sea-bird which inhabits the regions of Cape Horn. 1959D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VIII. 193 Dr Cushman Murphy describes this mollymauk [sc. the black-browed albatross, Diomedea melanophrys] as ‘the commonest albatross in the southern hemisphere, the most sociable and the most fearless of man while at sea’. 1972M. F. Soper N.Z. Birds 181 Albatrosses and mollymawks are tube-nosed birds..that, except for a few species inhabiting the North Pacific, are confined to the Southern Hemisphere. In New Zealand waters the term ‘molly⁓mawk’ is conveniently applied to the smaller forms, all of which have black backs, and the term ‘albatross’ to the two ‘great’ albatrosses, the Wandering and the Royal, the adults of which have white backs. |