Mohawkn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈməʊhɔːk/, U.S.

/ˈmoʊˌhɔk/,

/ˈmoʊˌhɑk/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, Mohawks.

Forms: 1600s Mahak, 1600s Mawhawke, 1600s Mohack, 1600s Mohagg, 1600s Mohaque, 1600s Mohoakx (plural), 1600s Mohog, 1600s Mohoke, 1600s Mohowaugsuck (plural), 1600s Mohowawog, 1600s Mowak, 1600s Mowhack, 1600s Mowhak, 1600s Mowhake, 1600s Mowhaug, 1600s Mowhauk, 1600s Mowhawke, 1600s–1700s Mohauk, 1600s–1700s Mokauk, 1600s– Mohawk, 1700s Mahog, 1700s Mohackander, 1700s Mohock.

Origin: A borrowing from Narragansett. Etymon: Narragansett mohowawog.

Etymology: < Narragansett mohowawog, lit. ‘cannibals’, cognate with Unami Delaware mhuwé:·yɔk , lit. ‘cannibal monsters’. The spelling Mohock is now restricted to an extended use that survives only in historical contexts: see Mohock n.In sense A. 2 confused with amok n., perhaps influenced by Mohock n.

A. n.

a. A member of a North American Indian people, one of the original five of the Iroquois Confederacy, inhabiting parts of southern Ontario and northern New York State.The people's name for themselves is Kanyin'kehaka.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Iroquois peoples > five or six nations > members of

Maqua1616

Mohawk1634

Seneca1664

Oneida1666

Onondaga1677

Tuscarora1713

Cayuga1744

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. i. 57 The very name of a Mowhack would strike the heart of a poore Abergenian dead.

1651 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) II. 169 A request was made the last winter by a messenger from the French at Canada to assist them against the Mowhakes.

1676 I. Mather Hist. King Philip's War (1862) 168 The Indian affirmed, that those Indians who are known by the name of Mauquawogs (or Mohawks, i.e. Man eaters) had lately fallen upon Philip.

1693 (title) A Narrative of an Attempt made by the French of Canada upon the Mohaque's Country.

1778 J. Wolcot Poetic Epist. Reviewers in Wks. (1816) I. 3 With hatchets, scalping knives in shape of pens, To bid, like Mohocks, hapless authors die.

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXIII Mohawks, an Indian Nation, acknowledged by the other tribes of the Six Nations to be the true old heads of the confederacy.

a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXI. 114/2 The appearance of a single Mohawk on the hills was sufficient to throw into alarm the Indian villages in New England.

1852 S. Moodie Roughing it in Bush II. ii. 42 The maid was frightened out of her wits at the sight of these strangers, who were Mohawks from the Indian woods upon the Bay of Quinté.

1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 921/2 Like the Oneida, the Mohawk have only 3 clans.

1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 32/3 Mohawks are much in demand on building sites because of their famed agility on skyscraper scaffolding.

1990 Time (Electronic ed.) 30 July Last week the Mercier Bridge was the focus of a standoff between the Mohawks and the governments of Quebec and Canada over the volatile issue of Native land rights.

b. The Iroquoian language of the Mohawk people.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Iroquoian > Iroquoian languages

Mohawk1754

Cherokee1761

Huron1776

Nottoway1830

Wyandot1837

Onondaga1887

Cayuga1933

Oneida1933

Tuscarora1933

1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will iv. xiii. 278 The Question is not, Whether what is said be..Latin, French, English, or Mohawk.

1787 Mohawk Prayer Bk. (title page) A new edition, to which is added the Gospel according to St. Mark, translated into Mohawk by Captn. Joseph Brant, an Indian of the Mohawk Nation.

1818 Weekly Recorder (Chillicothe, Ohio) 18 Dec. 147/1 They have books containing hymns, prayers, and part of the Bible; English on one page, and Mohawk on the other.

1873 R. Brown Races Mankind I. 243 Mr. Jones expresses his belief that in Canada there are only two distinct Indian languages—the Ojebway and the Mohawk.

1969 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 15 80 Some syntactic rules of Mohawk.

1992 Word 43 i. 131 She looks at children's Mohawk (also Iroquoian), finding both differences and parallels with adult speakers of an obsolescing language.

†2. In extended use: a Javanese warrior in a supposed homicidal frenzy; = amok n. 1. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > reckless or riotous > running amok > person

amok1588

Mohawk1773

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. xiv. 755 If the officer takes one of these amocks, or mohawks, as they have been called by an easy corruption, alive, his reward is very considerable.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. 288 Most of our readers must have heard of the Mohawks, and these [sc. the people of Djakarta] are the people who are so denominated, from a corruption of the word amock.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 439/1 If the officer takes one of these amocks or mohawks (as they have been called by an easy corruption) alive, he has a considerable reward.

3. Figure-skating. A step from either edge of the skate to the same edge on the other foot in an opposite direction. Cf. Choctaw n. 2.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > figure-skating > figure > specific figure or movement

spread eagle1823

Q1852

grapevine1868

loop1869

rocking turn1869

Mohawk1880

vine1891

bracket1892

Choctaw1892

counter1892

rocker1892

scud1892

three1895

toe-spin1921

death spiral1933

1880 H. E. Vandervell & T. M. Witham Syst. Figure-skating (ed. 3) 80 This change..was last year introduced into the Club figures on ice, and christened by the name of ‘Mohawk’.

1908 E. F. Benson Eng. Figure Skating 119 In Mohawks the same edge (outside or inside) as has been laid down by the first foot is taken up by the second.

1985 D. L. Bird Ice Skating (‘Know the Game’ Series) 13/2 In an open Mohawk, the free leg is held back.

4. Originally U.S. Also in form mohawk. A haircut in which the head is shaved except for a brush-like strip of hair running centrally from the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck, supposedly resembling that worn by Mohawk Indians. Cf. Mohican adj. 2, and note there.

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c1950 Wisconsin Eng. Lang. Surv. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 631/2 Different kinds of men's haircuts..Mohawk.

1982 A. Lane & W. Crawford Vals (film script for ‘Valley Girls’, rev. draft) 36 There's Harvey. He's got his Mohawk now.

1983 Miami News 7 July 1/4 Mr. Elijah Akeem, a menacing black mountain beneath an intimidating mohawk.

1986 New Yorker 2 June 25/2 Punks with stiff green Mohawks.

1996 City Paper (Baltimore) 27 Nov. 37/1 A much better way to revisit the mid-to late 70s than wearing some idiotic pair of flares or getting a mohawk 20 years too late.

B. adj.

Of or relating to the Mohawk people or their language.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Iroquois peoples

Mingo1661

Iroquois1666

Susquehannock1666

Seneca1684

Iroquoian1697

Meherrin1709

Huron1712

Onondaga1715

Mohawk1751

Oneida1760

Wyandot1780

1751 C. Lennox Harriot Stuart I. 92 They made me some complements in the Dutch language, which most of the Mohock Indians can speak fluently.

1763 N. Whitaker Serm. 30 June (1767) 44 This Joseph is a Chief of the Mohawk Nation.

1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 562/1 He..spoke well the Mohock language.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 299 They could not for a long time kill the Mohawk chief, who was a very large and strong man.

1878 (title) Mohawk minstrels' annual of dramas, dialogues, and drolleries.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 12/3 We forget that the plumbing fixtures in this place were patterned after the favorite designs of the Mohawk Indians who never had any plumbing.

1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 11 Jan. 24/2 Industrial dump sites have badly contaminated New York's Mohawk reservation and have ruined its once viable farming, fishing and sport-hunting economy.

Compounds

Mohawk haircut n. = sense A. 4.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair

roll1538

puff1601

Tuscan-top1602

cock-up1692

turban1727

bird's nest1730

rooter1840

coxcomb1843

roach1872

flop1900

Buster Brown1904

peppercorn1910

upsweep1946

bouffant1955

beehive1960

Prince Valiant1964

blow-dry1966

Mary Stuart1966

bouffy1970

Mohawk haircut1979

Mohican1983

fauxhawk2000

1979 New Yorker 5 Mar. 96 Steep, lumpy, rounded hills with strands of forest on top, like Mohawk haircuts.

1993 Equinox (Camden East, Ont.) June 85/2 I catch up with..a brisk, dark-haired woman, who is busy settling her 10-year-old son and his new Mohawk haircut into one of the reclining chairs in the lounge.

† Mohawks' corn n. Obsolete a kind of maize.

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1662 J. Winthrop Let. 29 July in New Eng. Q. (1937) 10 127 In the Northerly parts and Upland parts..they use a peculiar kind of that Corne which is called Mowhawkes Corn, which though planted in June will be Ripe in Season.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Mohauks Corn This Mohauk kind need not be sown before June.

Mohawk tassel n. rare a joe-pye weed, Eupatorium purpureum.

ΚΠ

1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mohawk-tassel, the Eupatorium purpureum.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mohawk
释义	Mohawkn.adj. Brit. /ˈməʊhɔːk/, U.S. /ˈmoʊˌhɔk/, /ˈmoʊˌhɑk/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, Mohawks. Forms: 1600s Mahak, 1600s Mawhawke, 1600s Mohack, 1600s Mohagg, 1600s Mohaque, 1600s Mohoakx (plural), 1600s Mohog, 1600s Mohoke, 1600s Mohowaugsuck (plural), 1600s Mohowawog, 1600s Mowak, 1600s Mowhack, 1600s Mowhak, 1600s Mowhake, 1600s Mowhaug, 1600s Mowhauk, 1600s Mowhawke, 1600s–1700s Mohauk, 1600s–1700s Mokauk, 1600s– Mohawk, 1700s Mahog, 1700s Mohackander, 1700s Mohock. Origin: A borrowing from Narragansett. Etymon: Narragansett mohowawog. Etymology: < Narragansett mohowawog, lit. ‘cannibals’, cognate with Unami Delaware mhuwé:·yɔk , lit. ‘cannibal monsters’. The spelling Mohock is now restricted to an extended use that survives only in historical contexts: see Mohock n.In sense A. 2 confused with amok n., perhaps influenced by Mohock n. A. n. 1. a. A member of a North American Indian people, one of the original five of the Iroquois Confederacy, inhabiting parts of southern Ontario and northern New York State.The people's name for themselves is Kanyin'kehaka. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Iroquois peoples > five or six nations > members of Maqua1616 Mohawk1634 Seneca1664 Oneida1666 Onondaga1677 Tuscarora1713 Cayuga1744 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. i. 57 The very name of a Mowhack would strike the heart of a poore Abergenian dead. 1651 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) II. 169 A request was made the last winter by a messenger from the French at Canada to assist them against the Mowhakes. 1676 I. Mather Hist. King Philip's War (1862) 168 The Indian affirmed, that those Indians who are known by the name of Mauquawogs (or Mohawks, i.e. Man eaters) had lately fallen upon Philip. 1693 (title) A Narrative of an Attempt made by the French of Canada upon the Mohaque's Country. 1778 J. Wolcot Poetic Epist. Reviewers in Wks. (1816) I. 3 With hatchets, scalping knives in shape of pens, To bid, like Mohocks, hapless authors die. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXIII Mohawks, an Indian Nation, acknowledged by the other tribes of the Six Nations to be the true old heads of the confederacy. a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXI. 114/2 The appearance of a single Mohawk on the hills was sufficient to throw into alarm the Indian villages in New England. 1852 S. Moodie Roughing it in Bush II. ii. 42 The maid was frightened out of her wits at the sight of these strangers, who were Mohawks from the Indian woods upon the Bay of Quinté. 1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 921/2 Like the Oneida, the Mohawk have only 3 clans. 1969 Observer 18 May (Colour Suppl.) 32/3 Mohawks are much in demand on building sites because of their famed agility on skyscraper scaffolding. 1990 Time (Electronic ed.) 30 July Last week the Mercier Bridge was the focus of a standoff between the Mohawks and the governments of Quebec and Canada over the volatile issue of Native land rights. b. The Iroquoian language of the Mohawk people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Iroquoian > Iroquoian languages Mohawk1754 Cherokee1761 Huron1776 Nottoway1830 Wyandot1837 Onondaga1887 Cayuga1933 Oneida1933 Tuscarora1933 1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will iv. xiii. 278 The Question is not, Whether what is said be..Latin, French, English, or Mohawk. 1787 Mohawk Prayer Bk. (title page) A new edition, to which is added the Gospel according to St. Mark, translated into Mohawk by Captn. Joseph Brant, an Indian of the Mohawk Nation. 1818 Weekly Recorder (Chillicothe, Ohio) 18 Dec. 147/1 They have books containing hymns, prayers, and part of the Bible; English on one page, and Mohawk on the other. 1873 R. Brown Races Mankind I. 243 Mr. Jones expresses his belief that in Canada there are only two distinct Indian languages—the Ojebway and the Mohawk. 1969 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 15 80 Some syntactic rules of Mohawk. 1992 Word 43 i. 131 She looks at children's Mohawk (also Iroquoian), finding both differences and parallels with adult speakers of an obsolescing language. †2. In extended use: a Javanese warrior in a supposed homicidal frenzy; = amok n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > reckless or riotous > running amok > person amok1588 Mohawk1773 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. xiv. 755 If the officer takes one of these amocks, or mohawks, as they have been called by an easy corruption, alive, his reward is very considerable. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World I. 288 Most of our readers must have heard of the Mohawks, and these [sc. the people of Djakarta] are the people who are so denominated, from a corruption of the word amock. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 439/1 If the officer takes one of these amocks or mohawks (as they have been called by an easy corruption) alive, he has a considerable reward. 3. Figure-skating. A step from either edge of the skate to the same edge on the other foot in an opposite direction. Cf. Choctaw n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > figure-skating > figure > specific figure or movement spread eagle1823 Q1852 grapevine1868 loop1869 rocking turn1869 Mohawk1880 vine1891 bracket1892 Choctaw1892 counter1892 rocker1892 scud1892 three1895 toe-spin1921 death spiral1933 1880 H. E. Vandervell & T. M. Witham Syst. Figure-skating (ed. 3) 80 This change..was last year introduced into the Club figures on ice, and christened by the name of ‘Mohawk’. 1908 E. F. Benson Eng. Figure Skating 119 In Mohawks the same edge (outside or inside) as has been laid down by the first foot is taken up by the second. 1985 D. L. Bird Ice Skating (‘Know the Game’ Series) 13/2 In an open Mohawk, the free leg is held back. 4. Originally U.S. Also in form mohawk. A haircut in which the head is shaved except for a brush-like strip of hair running centrally from the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck, supposedly resembling that worn by Mohawk Indians. Cf. Mohican adj. 2, and note there. ΚΠ c1950 Wisconsin Eng. Lang. Surv. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 631/2 Different kinds of men's haircuts..Mohawk. 1982 A. Lane & W. Crawford Vals (film script for ‘Valley Girls’, rev. draft) 36 There's Harvey. He's got his Mohawk now. 1983 Miami News 7 July 1/4 Mr. Elijah Akeem, a menacing black mountain beneath an intimidating mohawk. 1986 New Yorker 2 June 25/2 Punks with stiff green Mohawks. 1996 City Paper (Baltimore) 27 Nov. 37/1 A much better way to revisit the mid-to late 70s than wearing some idiotic pair of flares or getting a mohawk 20 years too late. B. adj. Of or relating to the Mohawk people or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Iroquois peoples Mingo1661 Iroquois1666 Susquehannock1666 Seneca1684 Iroquoian1697 Meherrin1709 Huron1712 Onondaga1715 Mohawk1751 Oneida1760 Wyandot1780 1751 C. Lennox Harriot Stuart I. 92 They made me some complements in the Dutch language, which most of the Mohock Indians can speak fluently. 1763 N. Whitaker Serm. 30 June (1767) 44 This Joseph is a Chief of the Mohawk Nation. 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 562/1 He..spoke well the Mohock language. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 299 They could not for a long time kill the Mohawk chief, who was a very large and strong man. 1878 (title) Mohawk minstrels' annual of dramas, dialogues, and drolleries. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 12/3 We forget that the plumbing fixtures in this place were patterned after the favorite designs of the Mohawk Indians who never had any plumbing. 1993 U.S. News & World Rep. 11 Jan. 24/2 Industrial dump sites have badly contaminated New York's Mohawk reservation and have ruined its once viable farming, fishing and sport-hunting economy. Compounds Mohawk haircut n. = sense A. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair roll1538 puff1601 Tuscan-top1602 cock-up1692 turban1727 bird's nest1730 rooter1840 coxcomb1843 roach1872 flop1900 Buster Brown1904 peppercorn1910 upsweep1946 bouffant1955 beehive1960 Prince Valiant1964 blow-dry1966 Mary Stuart1966 bouffy1970 Mohawk haircut1979 Mohican1983 fauxhawk2000 1979 New Yorker 5 Mar. 96 Steep, lumpy, rounded hills with strands of forest on top, like Mohawk haircuts. 1993 Equinox (Camden East, Ont.) June 85/2 I catch up with..a brisk, dark-haired woman, who is busy settling her 10-year-old son and his new Mohawk haircut into one of the reclining chairs in the lounge. † Mohawks' corn n. Obsolete a kind of maize. ΚΠ 1662 J. Winthrop Let. 29 July in New Eng. Q. (1937) 10 127 In the Northerly parts and Upland parts..they use a peculiar kind of that Corne which is called Mowhawkes Corn, which though planted in June will be Ripe in Season. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Mohauks Corn This Mohauk kind need not be sown before June. Mohawk tassel n. rare a joe-pye weed, Eupatorium purpureum. ΚΠ 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Mohawk-tassel, the Eupatorium purpureum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1634
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