mallemaroking
noun/ˌmæləməˈɹoʊkɪŋ/
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 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.
- derived from marotte
Definitions
The act of carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.
- "Just because I had one gin before and a couple of glasses of claret during you thought I'd been mallemaroking."
- […] they were willing to endure so much physical hardship out of loyalty to Emperor Franz Joseph. Indeed, such is their sense of duty that they even indulge in some muted mallemaroking to celebrate the Emperor's birthday.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mallemaroking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA