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Webster 1913 Edition

Mohawk

Mo′hawk

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Noun.
1.
(Ethnol.)
One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.
2.
One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians.
[Slang]
Spectator. Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mohawk

MO'HAWK

Definition 2024

Mohawk

Mohawk

See also: mohawk

English

Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant), Mohawk leader and British military officer during the American Revolution.

Proper noun

Mohawk

  1. An indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations.
  2. The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people.

Translations

Noun

Mohawk ‎(plural Mohawks)

Mohawk hairstyle.
  1. An individual member of the Mohawk people.
  2. (also mohawk) A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.

Synonyms

  • (UK/Australia hairstyle): Mohican, Mowie

Translations

See also

mohawk

mohawk

See also: Mohawk

English

Noun

mohawk ‎(plural mohawks)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Mohawk (hairstyle).

Spanish

Noun

mohawk m ‎(plural mohawks)

  1. (hairstyle): Mohawk

Etymology

An exonym, probably from an Narragansett word meaning "they eat (animate things)", "cannibals". The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanien'kehá:ka (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).

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