Definition of Mollymawks

1. Noun. (plural of mollymawk) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mollymawks

1. mollymawk [n] - See also: mollymawk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollymawks

molly-guard
molly-mawk
molly-mawks
mollycoddle
mollycoddled
mollycoddler
mollycoddlers
mollycoddles
mollycoddling
mollydooker
mollydookers
mollymawk
mollymawks (current term)
moloch
molochs
moloi
moloney leukaemia virus
moloney sarcoma virus
molossi
molossine
molossines
molossus
molossuses
molozonide
molozonides
molrac
molracs

Literary usage of Mollymawks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Log-letters from "The Challenger" by George Campbell (1877)
"At the foot of the hill we crossed a corner of the rookery, and then came to a dirty puddle among the grass, round and in which mollymawks were nesting and ..."

2. The Spiritual Magazine (1862)
"THE mollymawks OF LITERATURE. VOYAGERS in the tropical seas are familiar with large birds of the gull kind called mollymawks, which follow the ship for ..."

3. By the Great Wall: Letters from China by Isabella Burgess Riggs Williams (1909)
"A hook and line baited with pork was very attractive to the Cape pigeons, mollymawks and albatrosses. Such a splashing and fighting in the water as they ..."

4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1847)
"... mollymawks,' and the magnificent albatross. Several of these last which were caught were much larger in the body than a goose, ..."

5. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"... little auks, kittiwakes, fulmars or mollymawks, and various species of Arctic gulls, form a very characteristic feature of Arctic scenery. ..."

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