mollymawkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• mollemock, mollemoke, molly-mawk, malmock, mallemocke, mallemoke

語源

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”).

名詞

mollymawk (plural mollymawks)

1. A fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis).
2. Any of various similar seabirds, now especially an albatross of the genus Thalassarche.
   • 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin 1986, p. 210:

     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.

派生語

• black-browed mollymawk (Thalassarche melanophris
• molly

参照

• mollymawk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Diomedeidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Diomedeidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “mollymawk”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

参照

• “molly-mawk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.