mollyhawkn.
/ˈmɒlɪhɔːk/, U.S. /ˈmɑliˌhɔk/, /ˈmɑliˌhɑk/ = mollymawk n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Procellariidae (petrel) > member of genus Fulmarus (fulmar)
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1880 L. V. Briggs Jrnl. 19 Oct. in Around Cape Horn on Bark ‘Amy Turner’ (1926) 105 I caught and skinned two mollyhawks, or mollymoke, as some sailors call them.
1884 Sword & Trowel Apr. 167 The Mollyhawks, and Cape-pigeons..followed faithfully in our wake.
1917 T. G. Pearson Birds Amer. I. 80 Fulmar. Fulmarus glacialis glacialis... [Also called] Molly Hawk; John Down; Sea Horse.
1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo viii. 169 A big albatross swung slowly down the surf: albatross or mollyhawk, with wide, waving wings.
1927 M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor i. 16 The mollyhawks and albatrosses planed and circled, keeping up with the ship with scarcely a movement of their great wings.
1969 Landfall 23 103 In front of his house a mollyhawk was patiently taking up and dropping a pipi to break it on the hard sand.
1977 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 26 June 22/4 By sheer chance a method of making mollyhawk palatable was discovered.
1991 New Scientist 9 Mar. 55/1 This was a black-browed albatross, one of the smaller members of the tribe—a ‘mollyhawk’ in the vernacular of the southern oceans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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