mallemaroking
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Noun — Noisy drinking and partying among sailors on a whaling ship trapped in Greenland ice.
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Etymology
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 wh...
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