holluschick
Americannoun
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holluschickie
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of holluschick
First recorded in 1870–75; earlier holluschickie collective plural, from Russian kholostyakí, plural of kholostyák literally, “bachelor”
Example Sentences
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The old people in the nurseries took no notice of them, and the holluschickie kept to their own grounds, so the babies had a beautiful playtime.
From The jungle book by Rudyard Kipling
You can eat birds and walrus, and a man might eat a fur-seal if he’d had nothing else for a week, though I’ve struck nothing that has more smell than the holluschickie blubber.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss
The Devil is driving both this tide, and the killing-grounds are close, And we'll go up to the Wrath of God as the holluschickie goes.
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
It is mutilation or death for a holluschickie to put so much as a flipper on a rookery.
From The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
This path through the rookery gives just room for two holluschickie to pass.
From The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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