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”
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You can't tell a holluschickie from a cow seal in the water.
From The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
The Russians must have sent a vessel to take off the killers after the last drive of the season a day or two before, for the holluschickie were quite fresh.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss
Then they went inland to the holluschickie grounds and rolled up and down in the new wild wheat and told stories of what they had done while they had been at sea.
From The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Then they went inland to the holluschickie grounds, and rolled up and down in the new wild wheat, and told stories of what they had done while they had been at sea.
From The jungle book by Rudyard Kipling
He called them the holluschickie, or something like that.
From The Sea Wolf by Jack London
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