单词 | mollymawk |
释义 | mollymawkn. The fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis. Also: any of several similar or related sea birds; now esp. any of the albatrosses of the genus Thalassarche. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Fulmarus (fulmar) noddy1663 mollymawk1694 fulmar petrel1698 malduck1803 John Down1813 malmarsh1831 molly1857 mollyhawk1880 1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) 100 Of the Mallemucke. a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) i. 130 Wagellus Cornubiensium..Mallemuck. 1706 tr. E. Y. Ides Three Years Trav. Moscow to China xix. 91 White Bears and Malmucks (a sort of Birds of Prey). 1711 Atlas Geographus I. v. 129 Mallemucks, which feed on dead Whales, and are so greedy of their Prey..that they suffer the Seamen to fell them with Sticks in great Numbers. 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. ii. 433 Whales are often discovered at sea by the multitudes of Mallemuckes flying. 1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 198 Malmock, Mallemock, or Mallduck, Fulmar, Procellaria glacialis.—Appears in the friths of Orkney, and voes of Shetland. 1815 J. Laing Voy. Spitzbergen (1822) 81 The Greenlanders account the flesh of the Mallemukke good food. 1832 C. M. Goodridge Narr. Voy. South Seas 20 Various birds..such as the Albatross, Nellys, Peeos, Mollimocks [etc.]. 1835 J. Ross Narr. Second Voy. North-west Passage iii. 38 There were some shearwaters and mollemokes about the ship. 1854 J. Halliard Voy. & Adventures iv. 26 There are a kind of gulls in those seas called molymawks. 1880 Standard 20 May 3 Flocks of mallemokes. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 103 Cape pigeons and mollymawks. 1895 W. Barron Old Whaling Days 49 In a short time the captain got sight of her, being attracted by the malemauks hovering around. 1898 Spectator 13 Aug. 208 The ‘mallymoke’, which comes nearest to the albatross in size and beauty. 1913 H. K. Swann Dict. 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. 1959 D. 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’. 1972 M. 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 ‘mollymawk’ is conveniently applied to the smaller forms, all of which have black backs. 1976 J. Eunson Words, Phrases & Recoll. Fair Isle 40 Malliemonk, fulmar. 1984 P. O'Brian Far Side of World (1992) v. 180 There was a strong likelihood of mallemawks, blue petrels, whale-birds. 1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Mallimak,..fulmar petrel. 1991 Times 5 Jan. 15/1 Mollymawks are albatrosses, ocean birds. 2012 S. N. G. Howell Petrels, Albatrosses, & Storm-Petrels N. Amer. 303 Vagrant albatrosses in the North Atlantic have been almost annual in recent years, but only involve two species of mollymawks (genus Thalassarche): Western Yellow-nosed and Black-browed albatrosses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1694 |
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