Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mallemuck .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as
Fulmarus glacialis , of the North Atlantic, and several species of Æstrelata, of the Southern Ocean. Seefulmar .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several species of large
pelagic petrels andfulmars , such as Fulmarus glacialis of the North Atlantic and several species of Æstrelata of the Southern Ocean.
Etymologies
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Swedish mallemucke the stormy petrel.
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Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar.
Alternative forms: mollymawk, malmock, mollemock, mallemocke
Origin: Sw. Mallemucke the stormy petrel
January 18, 2009