mollymawk
nounEtymology Ultimately from Dutch mallemok (from malle (“foolish”)), probably influenced by German Mallemucke. Compare Japanese 信天翁(あほうどり) (ahōdori, “albatross, foolish bird”).
1
A fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis).
2
Any of various similar seabirds, now especially an albatross of the genus Thalassarche.
- She chatters, mainly to Simon, pointing out a circling mollymawk, a line of shags winging away from Maukiekie, a penguin that surfaces not far from the boat.1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 210:
- Derived terms
- black-browed mollymawk (Thalassarche melanophris, Campbell mollymawk, molly
- Related terms
- mollyhawk