Etymology

mollemoke

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Swedish mallemucke
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  1. Swedish · borrowed frommallemucke“stormy petrel”
  2. English todaymollemoke

Borrowed from Swedish mallemucke (“stormy petrel”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.