holluschick

[ hol-uhs-chik ]

noun,plural hol·lus·chick·ie [hol-uhs-chik-ee]. /ˈhɒl əsˌtʃɪk i/.
  1. a young male fur seal.

Origin of holluschick

1
First 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-Wheeler
  • It 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-Wheeler
  • This 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 Kipling
  • Patalamon 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 Kipling
  • And you say that all the furs, then, are taken from among the holluschickie?

    The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-Wheeler