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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An emendation of mollymawk, a name given by sailors to the smaller albatrosses. The ehange has been made on the mistaken supposition that mollymawk was a corruption of mollyhawk.
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Examples
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They eat'm mollyhawk and albatross; mollyhawk and albatross eat'm fat pork; two men he die, plenty men much sick, you bet, damn to hell me very much glad.
CHAPTER XLVIII 2010
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Three other breeding species are endemic to the Tristan-Gough islands: great shearwater Puffinus gravis (2 million pairs), Atlantic yellow-nosed mollyhawk Thalassarche chlororhyncos (1,000 pairs) and Atlantic petrel Pterodroma incerta (VU).
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A big albatross swung slowly down the surf: albatross or mollyhawk, with wide, waving wings.
Kangaroo 2004
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-- A mollyhawk was brought in today, it weighed four pounds and measured from tip of beak to tip of tail thirty inches, from tip of wing to tip of wing seventy-eight, and in girth twenty.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow
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From July to October the men get a great number of eaglet, penguin, and mollyhawk eggs -- all sea-fowl.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow
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They eat'm mollyhawk and albatross; mollyhawk and albatross eat'm fat pork; two men he die, plenty men much sick, you bet, damn to hell me very much glad.
Chapter 48 1914
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They eat'm mollyhawk and albatross; mollyhawk and albatross eat'm fat pork; two men he die, plenty men much sick, you bet, damn to hell me very much glad.
The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896
ruzuzu commented on the word mollyhawk
"An emendation of mollymawk, a name given by sailors to the smaller albatrosses. The ehange has been made on the mistaken supposition that mollymawk was a corruption of mollyhawk."
--Cent. Dict.
August 20, 2012
bilby commented on the word mollyhawk
Reminds me of that David Bowie lyric, eh-eh-ehanges.
August 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word mollyhawk
I think in this case it's more like meh-meh-mehanges.
August 21, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word mollyhawk
hog-molly
August 21, 2012