Mohock
/ˈməʊhɒk/(also mohock)
noun
A member of a band of aristocratic hooligans who allegedly roamed the streets of London by night in the early 18th cent. and were suspected of ruffianism. Hence (more generally): any hooligan or delinquent. Now historical and archaic.
Origin
Early 18th century. Originally a variant of Mohawk, now usually distinguished in form in sense 1.
- visionless
- vision quest
- visit
- visitability
- visitable
- visitant
- visitation
- visitatorial
- visiting card
- visiting fireman
- visiting hours
- visiting medical officer
- visiting nurse
- visiting professor
- visitor
- visitorial
- visitors' book
- Visking
- Visking tubing
- vis medicatrix naturae
- visna
- visna-maedi
- visor
- visored
- visorless