Mother Carey's chicken
English
Noun
Mother Carey's chicken (plural Mother Carey's chickens)
- (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.
- 1773, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 27 December: