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(noun) - (1) The visiting and carousing of seamen in the Greenland ships.
--William Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book, 1867
(2) Formed on Dutch mallemarok, a foolish woman, tomboy; from mal, foolish, and marok, adaptation of French marotte, an "object of foolish affection."
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1908
January 16, 2018