malmok, noun
- Forms:
- Also malmock, malmuck.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, South African Dutch, DutchShow more Afrikaans (earlier South African Dutch), adaptation of and transferred use of Dutch mallemok mollymawk, malle (attributive and combining form of mal foolish) + mok gull.
Any of several species of albatross, especially the blackbrowed albatross Diomedea melanophris of the Diomedeidae.
1795 C.R. Hopson tr. of C.P. Thunberg’s Trav. I. 91On the 26th, the large birds called malmucks, which are brown and white underneath, passed us in great numbers.
1987 E. Prov. Herald 26 May 11Malmok is the common name in South Africa of the mollymawk, which is found along the west coast and the east coast. It is larger than a blackbacked gull but not as big as the biggest albatross.
Any of several species of albatross, especially the blackbrowed albatross Diomedea melanophris of the Diomedeidae.
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