Mother Carey's chicken

English

Noun

Mother Carey's chicken (plural Mother Carey's chickens)

  1. (originally nautical) The storm petrel.
    • 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 27 December:
      A few blue petrels, black sheer-waters and Mather Caries chickens are all the birds we see.
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