mau-mau


mau-mau

M0158350 (mou′mou′)tr.v. mau·maued, mau·mau·ing, mau·maus Often Offensive To attack or denounce vociferously, especially so as to intimidate.
[After the Mau Mau, a secret society of Kikuyu insurgents that led a rebellion against the ruling Europeans in Kenya in the 1950s, perhaps from Kikuyu mau-mau, sound of the voracious gobbling of a hyena.]