mollyhawk
(ˈmɒlɪhɔːk)
Erron. form of mollymawk.
| 1880 L. V. Briggs Jrnl. 19 Oct. in Around Cape Horn on Bark ‘Amy Turner’ (1926) 105, I caught and skinned two mollyhawks, or mollymoke, as some sailors call them. 1884 Spurgeon in Sword & Trowel Apr. 167 The Mollyhawks, and Cape-pigeons..followed faithfully in our wake. 1888 Daily News 10 Sept. 2/4 Molly-hawks. 1917 [see John Down (John 4)]. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo viii. 169 A big albatross swung slowly down the surf: albatross or mollyhawk, with wide, waving wings. 1927 M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor i. 16 The mollyhawks and albatrosses planed and circled, keeping up with the ship with scarcely a movement of their great wings. 1969 Landfall XXIII. 103 In front of his house a mollyhawk was patiently taking up and dropping a pipi to break it on the hard sand by the water. |