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单词 mulgronnick
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mulgronnickn.

Brit. /mʌlˈɡrɒnɪk/, U.S. /məlˈɡrɑnək/
Forms: 1600s mulgronock, 1600s mulgronook, 1600s–1700s mulgranoc, 1700s–1800s mulgranack, 1700s–1800s mulligranoc, 1800s– mulgronnick, 1800s– mullgrannoc.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from Cornish. Etymon: Cornish morgroenek.
Etymology: Probably < Cornish morgroenek blenny (although attested only in dictionaries from 1938 onwards) < mor sea (see mere n.1) + kroenek toad < kroghen skin (Old Cornish croin , Middle Cornish crohen ; compare Breton kroc'hen , Welsh croen (13th cent.), Early Irish croiccenn ) + -ek suffix similar in function to -ed suffix2; compare Breton kroc'henek thick-skinned, Welsh croeniog made of skin, thick-skinned (c1400).The change of unstressed mor- to mul- in compounds of three or more syllables was common in spoken late Cornish.
English regional (Cornwall). Now rare.
The smooth blenny, Blennius pholis.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > family Blenniidae > member of genus Blennius (blenny) > blennius pholis (smooth blenny)
stone-fish1668
mulgronnick1673
bulcard1674
sea-lark1694
shan1713
smooth shan1713
smooth blenny1769
shanny1836
1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 104 Mulgronock; Alauda marina.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. y2 Mulgranoc, an English name for a small sea-fish caught in the Cornish and other shores.
1863 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands II. 226 Shanny. Mulligranoc. Smooth Blenny.
1865 J. T. Tregellas Cornish Tales (1868) 68 I can shaw ee oal the mulgronnick pools.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. 204 Blennius pholis... Names.—Shanny or shan: said to have been formerly known in Cornwall as Mullgrannoc and Bulcard.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 196/2 Mulgronnick... Also in form mulgranoc.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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