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Mau Mau|ˈmaʊmaʊ|
[Kikuyu.]
Name of an African secret society originating among the Kikuyu, having as its aim the expulsion of European settlers and the ending of British rule in Kenya. Also attrib.
1950E. Afr. Standard 16 June A/5 We have arrived at a state of dissatisfaction and insecurity, bitterness and delusion which has given rise to the formation of such societies as the ‘Dini ya Mswambwa’ and the ‘Mau Mau Association’. 1952L. S. B. Leakey Mau Mau & Kikuyu xi. 96 The Kikuyu regard the Mau Mau Association as nothing more than the old Kikuyu Central Association under another name. 1952N.Y. Times 26 Oct. i. 3/2 Large groups of natives fled today to lofty mountain hideouts to escape the Government drive..against Mau Mau terrorists, who have sworn death to the white man. 1955Times 13 July 6/5 Further evidence of the infiltration of Mau Mau into tribes other than the Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru was revealed here to-day. 1960F. D. Corfield Hist. Survey Orig. & Growth Mau Mau 78 On 21st September [1948] the Director of Intelligence and Security reported..that a new movement, the Mau Mau..had appeared in Naivasha. 1971Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 12/5 Events beyond human control—famine, Mau Mau, the changing environment.
Hence ˈmau-mau v. U.S. slang, to threaten, terrorize; so as n.; ˈmau-mauer; ˈmau-mauing vbl. n.
1970T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers (1971) 97 Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco. Ibid. 124 In public you used the same term the whites used, namely, ‘confrontation’. The term ‘mau-mauing’ was a source of amusement in private. The term mau-mauing said, ‘The white man has a voodoo fear of us, because deep down he still thinks we're savages. Right? So we're going to do that Savage number for him.’ Ibid. 148 And it was here that Bill Jackson proved himself to be a brilliant man and a true artist, a rare artist of the mau-mau. 1971Harper's June 9 His [sc. Norman Mailer's] demonstration of the inadequacies and distortions of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics is convincing and indicates that the English Department of Columbia University had been mau-maued by that termagant of Women's Lib. 1974Maclean's Mag. Dec. 108/1 We've had a belly full of Indian rhetoric. After a threat is made for the fifth, twelfth or fortieth time, the excitement wears off; boredom becomes contempt when we find out that each hollow boast brings more government money tinkling into the Indian organizations' pockets. American writer Tom Wolfe calls the technique ‘mau-mauing’; it's no accident that the most successful mau-mauer, Harold Cardinal, runs one of the strongest Indian organizations in Canada. |