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muniack
[< Algonk.]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See moyaque 1956 quote.
See: moyaque
Quotations
1853
A duck, called the muniack, remains about the shore [of Anticosti Is.] all the winter.
1956
Common Eider [is also called] . . . moignac (Que. . . .) . . . mouniac (Que.); mourriac (Nfld., "Labr." ... moyak ("Labr.").