Footnote

a “‘Gooney’ was originally ‘goney,’ the Old English word for a stupid person . . . ‘Mollymawk,’ also ‘mollyhawk,’ or just plain ‘molly,’ comes from the Dutch ‘mallemok,’ meaning a stupid gull.” (Birds of the World, by Oliver L. Austin, Jr.) In Japanese the term ahodori, meaning “fool bird,” replaced the old name meaning “great white bird.”