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5 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originFrom Norwegian minkehval, allegedly after a crew member of the Norwegian whaling pioneer Svend Foyn (1809–1894), named Meincke, who mistook a pod of minkes for blue whales.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0