holluschick
[ hol-uhs-chik ]
Origin of holluschick
1First recorded in 1870–75; earlier holluschickie collective plural, from Russian kholostyakí, plural of kholostyák literally, “bachelor”
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How to use holluschick in a sentence
This path through the rookery gives just room for two holluschickie to pass.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-WheelerIt is mutilation or death for a holluschickie to put so much as a flipper on a rookery.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-WheelerThis year we are all holluschickie, and we can dance the Fire-dance in the breakers off Lukannon and play on the new grass.
The Jungle Book | Rudyard KiplingPatalamon rattled a pair of seal's shoulder bones in front of a herd of holluschickie and they stopped dead, puffing and blowing.
The Jungle Book | Rudyard KiplingAnd you say that all the furs, then, are taken from among the holluschickie?
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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