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Mako
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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| mako or mako-mako2 (ˈmɑːkəʊ, ˈmɑːkəʊˌmɑːkəʊ) | |
| —n , pl -kos | |
| 1. | Also called: wineberry a small evergreen New Zealand tree, Aristotelia serrata: family Elaeocarpaceae |
| 2. | (NZ) another name for bellbird |
| [from Māori] | |
| mako-mako or mako-mako2 | |
| —n | |
| [from Māori] | |
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mako
"large blue shark," listed as 1727 in OED, from "The History of Japan," Eng. transl. of Engelbert Kaempfer's Ger. manuscript; however this is claimed by some to be an error, and some say Kaempfer's word represents Japanese makkô(-kujira) "sperm whale." But the description in the text fits neither
EXPANDthe shark nor the whale. The word is ult. from Maori mako "shark, shark's tooth," of uncertain etymology. If the 1727 is an error, the next entry is for 1820, from a book on New Zealand languages.
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