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molly-mawk

molly-mawk 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 molly-mawk

pluralmolly-mawks

Questions about molly-mawk

What is molly-mawk the alternative form of?
Molly-mawk is the alternative form of mollymawk.

Words near molly-mawk in the dictionary

  1. molly-guard
  2. molly-guards
  3. molly-handed
  4. molly-house
  5. molly-houses
  6. molly-mawk
  7. molly-mawks
  8. Mollyan
  9. mollyblobs
  10. mollycoddle
  11. mollycoddled

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