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From Ahab + -ian, after the fictional captain in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick who is obsessed with killing a whale that once injured him.
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From Ahab + -ian, after the fictional captain in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick who is obsessed with killing a whale that once injured him.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.