Meanings
nounparmacety (plural not attested)
alternative parmacetty · alternative parmaceti
- no pluralobsoleteSpermaceti.
- no pluralobsoleteA sperm whale.
"Young man, come nearer to me: it was devoured, chewed up, crunched by the monstrousest parmacetty that ever chipped a boat!--ah, ah!"
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
Origin
Variant form of spermaceti.
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parmacety. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parmacety
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “parmacety,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parmacety.
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