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mallemoke

mallemoke is the alternative form of mollymawk.

Meaning of mollymawk

Noun

mollymawk (plural mollymawks)

  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

Forms of mallemoke

pluralmallemokes

Questions about mallemoke

What is mallemoke the alternative form of?
Mallemoke is the alternative form of mollymawk.

Words near mallemoke in the dictionary

  1. malleids
  2. malleiform
  3. mallein
  4. mallemaroking
  5. mallemocke
  6. mallemoke
  7. mallemuck
  8. mallemucks
  9. Mallen
  10. Mallen streak
  11. Mallen streaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mallemoke (page history and authors); mollymawk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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