mulloway
noun
mulloway is a noun meaning “Any of the species Argyrosomus japonicus of large fish, found along the eastern coast of Africa and the coasts of Australia, prized for sport” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-U-L-L-O-W-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mulloway is mulloways.
What does mulloway mean?
noun
- 1
Any of the species Argyrosomus japonicus of large fish, found along the eastern coast of Africa and the coasts of Australia, prized for sport.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mulloway
- mulloways plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mulloway?
Mulloway appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does mulloway come from?
Probably from Ngarrindjeri malowe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).