holluschickie

plural holluschickies · alternative holluschuckie

1. A bachelor seal; a young male seal which is prevented from mating by its herd's older males, mated bulls defending their territory.

alternative holluschuckie

1. pluralplural of holluschick

   But he'll lie down on the killing grounds where the holluschickie go.

   1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Rhyme of the Three Sealers

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   I think I have read something about them. Dr. Jordan's book, I believe. They are the young bulls, not old enough to have harems of their own. He called them the holluschickie, or something like that.

   1904, Jack London, The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC