mameluke
/ˈmæməˌluk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Mameluke.
noun
A member of various military regimes in the Middle East established and run by freed white slave soldiers, mainly from the Eurasian steppe or the Caucasus; in particular, those who formed a ruling caste in Egypt from 1250 until 1812 and in Syria from 1260 until 1516.
noun
One who supports someone or something blindly or slavishly; specifically, one who supports the Roman Catholic Church in this manner.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "Kabikov: “Hey, I’m setting a mood.” Mad Sal: “I’ll mood you, you mameluke."
- "My goddamn son-in-law, my right-hand man, acting like a fucking mameluke in front of all those people.” “Maybe he acted that way on purpose,” Tozzi said, “To make you think he was a mameluke.” “He was a mameluke!”"
- "“I’m saying there are some asshole cops who take their ‘collar’ out to the desert and bury him. […] There is nothing I would enjoy more than to put that mameluke Mikey Esposito in the ground . . . but that’s not going to happen.”"
- "[…] Mammolukes and Geniſaries about yͤ Turk and Sowdã [Sowdan, i.e., Sudan], haue vſed to chriſten their children of purpoſe, that by the renayĩg of their fayth, after, they might be made Mammolukes or Geniſaries, as theyr fathers were, and may be had the more in eſtimacion & fauour about the greate Turke, […]"
- "The Mammalukes boaſt, that they have the nimbleſt and readieſt horſes of any men at armes in the vvorld."
- "The mightie Empire of Saladine againe rent in peeces, yet ſtill poſſeſſed in parts by the Selzuccian family: vntill driuen out of Syria by the Tartars, and diſpoſſeſt of Ægypt by the Mamalacks."
Etymology
Sense 1 (“fool”) is probably derived from Mameluke (“member of various military regimes in the Middle East established and run by freed white slave soldiers; one who supports someone or something blindly or slavishly”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: م ل ك, mameluc, mamelu, مَمْلُوك
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmæməˌluk/
- British English: /ˈmamɪl(j)uːk/