Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mollemoke

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mollemoke
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, such as Fulmarus glacialis of the North Atlantic and several species of Pterodroma of the Southern Ocean.

Example Sentences

"Ivory gulls and mollemokes were seen farther on. They did not lose sight of the birds after this, as far as they went. The ivory gulls flew very high, but the mollemokes alit, and fed on the water, flying over it well out to sea, as we had seen them do in Baffin Bay."

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish mallemucke (“stormy petrel”).

Origin

Source language: Swedish

Word Breakdown

Root: mallemucke

Inflected Forms

mollemokes (plural) malmock (alternative) mallemocke (alternative) mallemoke (alternative) mollemock (alternative) mollymawk (alternative) molly-mawk (alternative)

Synonyms

northern fulmar Arctic fulmar fulmar gadfly petrel

Questions

What does mollemoke mean?: Any of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, such as Fulmarus glacialis of the North Atlantic and several species of Pterodroma of the Southern Ocean.
Where does mollemoke come from?: It is traced to Swedish.

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