Meanings
nounparmacetty (plural parmacetties)
plural parmacetties
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of parmacety.
Lost by a whale! Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 15”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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