mallemaroking

发音

US /ˌmæləməˈɹoʊkɪŋ/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.

    历史 不可数 航海 交通

词源

Generally considered to derive from Dutch, although a specific etymon is unclear. Century and some other old dictionaries derive it from a confusion of two similar Dutch words, namely *mallemerok (“foolish woman”) (from malle (“foolish”) + *marok, from French marotte (“jester's sceptre”)) and *mallemok (“sailor of a whaling vessel”), but the first of those words is not attested, and the second is not attested with the claimed meaning (but see mollymawk). Compare mallemolen.

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