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▪ I. amok, a. and adv.|əˈmɒk|
Also amock, amuck.
[ad. Malay amoq adj., ‘engaging furiously in battle, attacking with desperate resolution, rushing in a state of frenzy to the commission of indiscriminate murder... Applied to any animal in a state of vicious rage’; Marsden Malay Dict. Cf. amoke v.]
1. a. adj. or n. A name for a frenzied Malay. (Found first in Pg. form amouco, amuco.)
[c1516Barbosa transl. by Ld. Stanley (Hakl. Soc. 1866) 194 There are some of them [the Javanese] who..go out into the streets, and kill as many persons as they meet..These are called Amuco. ]1663H. Cogan Pinto's Trav. I. 199 That all those which were able to bear arms should make themselves Amoucos, that is to say, men resolved either to dye, or vanquish. Ibid. lxiv. 260 These same are ordinarily called Amucos. 1772Cook Voy. (1790) I. 288 To run amock is to get drunk with opium.. to sally forth from the house, kill the person or persons supposed to have injured the Amock, and any other person that attempts to impede his passage. 1947Straits Times (Malaysian ed.) 11 Oct. 1/2 The amok..stabbed four B.O.R.s, a Malay and a Tamil. 1966[see parang]. 1977Globe and Mail (Toronto) 17 Sept. 36/2 An apparently friendly Malay woman turns out to be an amok.
b. A murderous frenzy; the act of running amok.
1849Jrnl. Indian Archipelago III. 463 These amoks result from an idiosyncrasy or peculiar temperament common amongst Malays. 1893F. A. Swettenham About Perak 47 It is this state of blind fury, this vision of blood, that produces the amok. 1947Straits Times (Malaysian ed.) 11 Oct. 1/2 It was feared that the man..would..begin a second amok. 1952W. J. H Sprott Social Psychol. iii. xi. 245 Men..are the victims of the type of seizure known as ‘amok’, which also occurs in Malay.
2. to run amok: to run viciously, mad, frenzied for blood. (Here amok was orig. adj.)
1672Marvell Reh. Transp. I. 59 Like a raging Indian..he runs a mucke (as they cal it there) stabbing every man he meets. 1772Cook Voy. (1790) I. 289 Jealousy of the women is the usual reason of these poor creatures running amock (or amuck). 1833Southey Nav. Hist. Eng. I. 21 The same pitch of fury which the Malays excite in themselves by a deleterious drug, before they run amuck. 1858Gen. Thompson Audi Alt. Part. i. xxii. 81 If the laborious ox..was seen..running amuck and sending man, woman and child to the hospital by dint of horn or hoof. 1879L. Lindsay Mind in Lower An. 45 Thus the running amok (or amuck)..is a peculiar form of human insanity. 1933L. Ainsworth Confessions Planter in Malaya vii. 75 The reason for the headlong retreat was a Bengali who had run ‘amok’... He had already killed two persons outright. 1972Straits Times (Malaysian ed.) 4 May 9/8 A 27-year-old man ran amok with a meat-chopper and attacked a 62-year-old woman. 1980S. Naipaul Black & White ii. ii. 133 ‘Here,’ an acquaintance said to me, ‘you either reach for the stars or you crack up and run amok with a chainsaw.’
3. fig. Wild or wildly, headlong or heedlessly. (Very rarely with any other verb than run.) Const. on, at, against (with, of).
1689Hickeringill Modest Inq. i. 2 Running a Muck at all Mankind. 1735Pope Hor. Sat. ii. i. 70 I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. 1827Hare Guess. Tr. Ser. i. (1873) 259 If we could banish our wits to grin amuck with savages and monkies. 1859Thoreau Walden viii. (1863) 186, I might have run ‘amok’ against society, but I preferred that society should run ‘amok’ against me. 1870Disraeli Lothair xxx. 145 Ready to run a muck with any one who crossed him. 1880W. R. Smith in Manch. Guard. 29 Oct., In their alarm they were determined to run amuck of everything.
¶ It has been erroneously treated as muck n.
1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 1188 And runs an Indian muck at all he meets. 1824Byron Juan x. lxix, Thy waiters running mucks at every bell.
▪ II. aˈmok(e, v. rare.
[see amok a.]
To run amuck.
1866C. Brooke Saráwak I. 29 On our return to Saráwak, we found a boy only sixteen years old had amoked in the town. Ibid. 27 Such causes in most instances lead to the Malay amoking. |