mau-mauv.

Brit.

/ˈmaʊmaʊ/, U.S.

/ˈmaʊˌmaʊ/

Forms: 1900s– mau-mau, 1900s– maumau.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Mau Mau n.

Etymology: < Mau Mau n. (compare sense 1 at that entry).

colloquial (chiefly North American).

transitive. To use menacing or intimidating tactics against; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > make threats against

threata1000

threatenc1290

menacec1384

menacea1400

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shorec1475

boasta1522

worrya1556

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bravea1619

bethreatened1635

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bay1796

comminate1801

bravo1831

mau-mau1970

1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers (1971) 97 Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco.

1971 Harper's Mag. June 9 His [sc. Norman Mailer's] demonstration of the inadequacies and distortions of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics is convincing and indicates that the English Department of Columbia University had been mau-maued by that termagant of Women's Lib.

1986 D. Caute News from Nowhere xvii. 174 They would not be ambushed on the road, surely Cubans could not be mau-maued by his own guerilla comrades.

1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 146 Act Up zaps the phone lines of politicians and mau-maus the white coats of the medical establishment.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mau-mau
释义	mau-mauv. Brit. /ˈmaʊmaʊ/, U.S. /ˈmaʊˌmaʊ/ Forms: 1900s– mau-mau, 1900s– maumau. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Mau Mau n. Etymology: < Mau Mau n. (compare sense 1 at that entry). colloquial (chiefly North American). transitive. To use menacing or intimidating tactics against; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > threaten (evil, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > make threats against threata1000 threatenc1290 menacec1384 menacea1400 menacec1400 shorec1475 boasta1522 worrya1556 threapen1559 bravea1619 bethreatened1635 braveer1652 bay1796 comminate1801 bravo1831 mau-mau1970 1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers (1971) 97 Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco. 1971 Harper's Mag. June 9 His [sc. Norman Mailer's] demonstration of the inadequacies and distortions of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics is convincing and indicates that the English Department of Columbia University had been mau-maued by that termagant of Women's Lib. 1986 D. Caute News from Nowhere xvii. 174 They would not be ambushed on the road, surely Cubans could not be mau-maued by his own guerilla comrades. 1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 146 Act Up zaps the phone lines of politicians and mau-maus the white coats of the medical establishment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1970
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