Mohicann.adj.

Brit.

/mə(ʊ)ˈhiːk(ə)n/, U.S.

/moʊˈhik(ə)n/

Inflections: Plural Mohicans, unchanged.

Forms:

α. 1600s Mahiggin, 1600s– Mahican, 1700s Mahicanni, 1700s Mahiccan, 1700s Mahicon, 1700s Mahikan.

β. 1600s Mawhiggin, 1600s Moheag, 1600s Moheegin, 1600s Mohege, 1600s Mohegen, 1600s Mohiganie, 1600s Mohiggener, 1600s Mohiggin, 1600s Mohigoner, 1600s 1800s Mohigan, 1600s–1700s Mohegin, 1600s–1700s Mohigon, 1700s Moheagon, 1700s Moheeg, 1700s Moheegan, 1700s Moheg, 1700s–1800s Moheagan, 1700s– Mohegan, 1800s Mohingan.

γ. 1600s Manheken, 1600s Manhigan, 1600s Monahegan, 1600s Monahiganeuk, 1600s Monahigganick, 1600s Monahiggon, 1600s Monhack, 1600s Monheag, 1600s Monheagan, 1600s Monhegen, 1600s Monhegin, 1600s Monhigg, 1600s Monhiggin, 1600s Monohegen, 1600s Munhegan, 1600s Munhicke, 1600s–1700s Monhegan, 1800s– Manhingan.

δ. 1600s Moheek, 1600s Moheken, 1600s Mohicand, 1700s Mahickander, 1700s Mawhickon, 1700s Moheckon, 1700s Mohekin, 1700s Mohickan, 1700s Mohickander, 1700s Mohickon, 1800s Mohecan, 1800s Mohiccon, 1800s– Moheecan.

ε. 1800s– Mohican.

Origin: Formed within English, by blending.

Etymology: Blend of English forms of the self-designations of two Algonquian Indian peoples (see sense A. 1a). The self-designation of the Mahikans appears to have been Muhhekunneyuk (probably < a place name Muhheakunnuk denoting the tidal section of the Hudson River: the translation ‘wolf’ in quot. 1907 at sense A. 1aα. is probably mistaken) or Muhheakunneuw, and to have been transmitted via Munsee mà·hí·kan; that of the Mohegans appears to have been a form apprehended as *Moyahegan (compare Moya[u]hegunnewog people of Mohegan). Compare the early 17th-cent. Dutch forms Mahikan (1625), Mahikander (1642), Maikan (c1626), Manikan (c1633) and post-classical Latin plural forms Manhikani (1633), Mahikanenses (1635).The form Mohican in modern use is chiefly after J. Fenimore Cooper's usage (see sense A. 1b): on his choice of this spelling see quots. 1823 at sense A. 1aε. , 1826 at sense A. 1aε. . In his 1994 edition of Cooper's novel, J. McWilliams identifies Cooper's Mohicans on historical grounds as the Mohegans, although Cooper does not mention the Mahicans as a separate people (compare quot. 1826 at sense A. 1aε. ). In the 1820s Cooper probably had some personal contact with a Mohegan offshoot of the Stockbridge Indians (see note at sense A. 1a). Renderings of the Mahikan self-designation (e.g. Moheakunnuk, Mo-hee-con-neugh, Muhheakunnuk, Muh-he-con-nuk, Muhhekaneew), also occur in English contexts.

A. n.

a. A member of either of two Algonquian peoples who formerly lived along the lower Connecticut River and on the upper reaches of the Hudson.One of these peoples (now usually called Mahican

Brit.

/məˈhiːk(ə)n/

U.S.

/məˈhikən/

or Mohican

Brit.

/mə(ʊ)ˈhiːk(ə)n/

U.S.

/moʊˈhikən/

) formerly occupied parts of eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and north-western Connecticut; the other (now usually called Mohegan

Brit.

/mə(ʊ)ˈhiːɡ(ə)n/

U.S.

/moʊˈhiɡən/

or Mohican

Brit.

/mə(ʊ)ˈhiːk(ə)n/

U.S.

/moʊˈhikən/

) occupied parts of eastern or south-eastern Connecticut. In historical usage, as in more recent non-specialist use, there is no clear distinction evident in forms used to denote the two peoples, and it is clear that in a number of cases the existence of two distinct peoples was not apprehended: it is impossible today to divide the early evidence decisively as denoting either one people or the other. There appears to be very little evidence before the 20th cent. for the names of the two tribes being used contrastively (but note quot. 1797 at δ. ).The Mahicans and Mohegans both suffered severe reductions in numbers and power following the arrival of the Dutch and British in the 17th cent., and by the 18th cent. were scattered from their original territories. In the 1730s a community of Mahicans, together with remnants of the Mohegan people, settled in the Christian mission village of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In the 19th cent. this group (known as the Stockbridge Indians) joined with a group of Munsee (Munsee n.) and settled on reservation land in Shawano Co., Wisconsin. The people of this reservation now identify themselves as the Mohican Nation, Stockbridge–Munsee band.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard

Powhatan1608

Mohicanc1614

Massachusett1616

Penobscot1624

Pequot1631

Narragansett1637

Nipmuc1637

Algonquin1667

Wampanoag1676

Minisink1694

Abenaki1698

Lenape1728

Maliseet1749

Munsee1756

Passamaquoddy1759

Micmac1760

Podunk1797

Algic1839

Virginia Algonquian1903

α.

c1614 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 788 Mahicans.

1633 Deposition 6 Nov. in N.Y. Colonial Docs. (1856) I. 78 Another nation, called the Mahiggins, would come downe thither with..every merchantable beaver skinne.

1660 tr. P. Stuyvesant in E. M. Ruttenber Tribes Hudson River (1872) 140 On the intercession of the Maquas, the Mahicans..and other tribes, we concluded a truce with our enemies.

1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 786/2 Mahican (‘wolf’). An Algonquian tribe that occupied both banks of the upper Hudson.

1956 L. A. Dyer House of Peace iv. 19 Fruit helped keep the Mahicans healthy even in winter.

1985 C. Waldman Atlas N. Amer. Indian 94/3 The Mohawks at the eastern door of the symbolic League longhouse..waged war with the Mahicans of the Hudson Valley.

β. 1634 T. Yong in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1871) 4th Ser. IX. 129 Here is also the brother of the King of Mohigon who is the uppermost King that wee have mett with.1637 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 927 Moheegins.1645 J. Winthrop Declar. Former Passages 3 Lastly, Miantonimo without any provocation from Uncas.., came upon the Mohiggins with 900 or 1000 men.1660 W. Leete Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1865) 4th Ser. VII. 545 Two Mohegins..doe liue as seruants vnto mee for planting corne, cutting wood, &c.1722 S. Sewall Let.-bk. II. 142 The Mohegins are as much a distant Nation from your English Inhabitants, as our Eastern Indians are from us.1788 J. Edwards Observ. Lang. Muhhekaneew Indians 5 They..are by the Anglo-Americans, called Mohegans.1788 J. Edwards Observ. Lang. Muhhekaneew Indians 11 The Mohegans have no adjectives in all their language.1947 F. D. Downey Lusty Forefathers 127 Its student body had grown to comprise twenty-nine Indian boys and ten Indian girls—Delawares, Mohawks, Oneidas, Montauks, Mohegans, and Narragansetts.1994 Times 25 Mar. 14/5 The surviving Mohegans, about 1,000, fought a vigorous battle for recognition, spurred by the prospect of profits from gambling.γ. 1637 R. Williams Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 216 Okace the Monahiggon..carried away 40 Pequts to Monahiganick.1638 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1978) XV. 194 Neither shal the Narrongansets nor Monhegins possess any part of the Pequots Countrey.1872 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 788 Manhingans.δ. 1656 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 927 Moheken.1749 Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 June 2/2 Two Indian Converts..met lately at Bethlehem..with some of the Delaware Indians, and some of the Mohickons.1778 T. Hutchins Topogr. Descr. Virginia 66 Mohickons.1797 B. S. Barton New Views Origin Tribes & Nations Amer. p. xxxii Mr. Charles Thomson, the respectable secretary of the first American Congress, speaks of the Mohickanders and the Mahicon as two distinct tribes, but this is incorrectly done.1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXIII Mohiccons, a tribe of Indians whose habitations lie on a branch of the Susquehannah... Also an Indian tribe in the N.W. territory, which inhabits near Sandusky.1848 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 788 Mohecan.ε. 1820 J. Heckewelder Narr. Mission United Brethren among Delaware & Mohegan Indians 418 From the commencement of this mission among the Mohicans..in 1740..unto the year 1808..between thirteen and fourteen hundred souls were baptized by the Brethren.1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. vii. 103 The principal tribes..were, the Mahicanni, Mohicans, or Mohegans, and the Nanticokes, or Nentigoes.1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. Pref. p. vi The tribe that possessed the country..was a mighty people, called the ‘Mahicanni’, or, more commonly, the ‘Mohicans’. The latter word has since been corrupted by the English, into ‘Mohegan’.1873 R. Brown Races Mankind I. 225 The Mo-hee-con-neughs (or Mohicans) are now almost extinct.1992 P. Frazer Mohicans of Stockbridge iii. 29 Clearly, not all Mohicans cared to start carrying Bibles and wearing powdered wigs.

b. allusively. the last of the Mohicans [ < The Last of the Mohicans, the title of a novel (1826) by J. Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)] : the sole survivor(s) of a noble race or kind (sometimes ironic).Members of today's Mohican Nation (see note at sense A. 1a) dispute Cooper's representation of the Mohicans as having died out as an identifiable people.

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1832 Boston Transcript 3 Apr. 2/1 We have seen the last of the Mohigans and the last of the cocked-hats, and we pray that we may be able to say, on the morrow we have seen the last of the snow-storms.

1835 C. Bradley in Ohio Archæol. & Hist. Q. (1906) 15 232 I jumped out upon the floor, all dressed, and found myself, with one exception, the last of the Mohicans.

1894 A. Lang Cock Lane 136 A hundred years after the blue stockings looked on Johnson as the last survivor, the last of the Mohicans of superstition, the Psychical Society can collect some 400 cases of haunted houses in England.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 613 Fourpence (the amount he deposited unobtrusively in four coppers, literally the last of the Mohicans).

1946 H. Howe We Happy Few 7 You can't pay attention to a thing that John Calcott says because he is the perfect product of the school—our own special Last of the Mohicans.

1982 ‘K. Blake’ Professionals: You'll be All Right ii. 14 ‘Here you are, in your own house, and looking like you've just come out of solitary.’ ‘You're the last one, Jack,’ said Bodie with a thin smile. ‘The Last of the Mohicans.’

c. In various extended uses.

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1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 309 A Mohican, in Cadonian phraseology, is a tremendously heavy man, who rides five or six miles [in an omnibus] for sixpence.

1913 J. London Valley of Moon 118 You're a Mohegan with a scalplock.

2. The Eastern Algonquian language of either the Mahicans or the Mohegans.The languages of both peoples were extinct by the early 20th cent.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian > Algonquian languages

Illinois1703

Ojibwa1743

Chippewa1791

Shawnee1792

Miami-Illinois1804

Natick1822

Delaware1826

Munsee1828

Nanticoke1845

Blackfoot1846

Pequot1848

Potawatomi1848

Wiyot1851

Montagnais1852

Passamaquoddy1856

Abenaki1858

Narragansett1866

Lenape1888

Penobscot1891

Powhatan1895

Menominee1896

Micmac1902

Meskwaki1907

Maliseet1912

Cheyenne1933

Kickapoo1933

Massachusett1933

Mohican1933

Sauk1933

Virginia Algonquian1971

Ottawa1982

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The languages..of New England (..Mohican, and so on with Delaware to the south).

3. In form Mohican (also mohican). A Mohican hairstyle (see sense B. 2). Also: a person with such a hairstyle.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair

roll1538

puff1601

Tuscan-top1602

cock-up1692

turban1727

bird's nest1730

rooter1840

coxcomb1843

roach1872

flop1900

Buster Brown1904

peppercorn1910

upsweep1946

bouffant1955

beehive1960

Prince Valiant1964

blow-dry1966

Mary Stuart1966

bouffy1970

Mohawk haircut1979

Mohican1983

fauxhawk2000

1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Nov. b1 Some clients come expecting outrageous hair styles. ‘But we don't put a Mohican on someone who can't handle it.’

1985 Sounds 27 July 19/1 Their audience, really, is in the college circuit. They're not playing in scuzzy punk clubs to mohicans.

1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 87 He doesn't come across as much of a ringleader—tatty clothes, the stub of a ginger mohican and a modest, unassuming manner.

B. adj.

1. Designating or relating to the Mahicans or Mohegans (see sense A. 1a), or the Eastern Algonquian language of either people.

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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard

Massachusett1622

Pequot1634

Nipmuc1636

Mohican1637

Natick1677

Minisink1694

Algonquin1698

Passamaquoddy1726

Penobscot1727

Abenaki1746

Micmac1767

Maliseet1770

Munsee1779

Powhatan1785

Mashpee1809

Powhatanic1855

Virginia Algonquian1870

Wampanoag1948

Mashpee Wampanoag1977

1637 R. Williams Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 207 Okace the Mohiganie Sachim had about 300 men with him on Pequt river.

1643 in Rec. Mass. Bay (1853) II. 46 Concerning any advice..about the Nariganset or Mohegen sachems and their people.

1751 C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 49 You send for one of Your Friends that can speak the Mohickon or the Mingoe Tongues well.

1768 C. Beatty Jrnl. Two Months' Tour 109 Thirty or forty of the Mohigon Indians.

1850 G. Hines Voy. round World 126 His mother was an Indian woman, a relic of the Mohican tribe.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 831/1 The Pequod and Mohegan tribes were amongst the largest and most powerful.

1884 G. Smith Short Hist. Christian Missions ii. xii. 136 In 1661–63 the Moheecan Bible, the first Bible printed in America, was printed by him [sc. John Eliot].

1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. xxxii. 138 Peter Schuyler, and early mayor of Albany, once severely rebuked a Mohican Indian who was idling, naked, about the wharf.

1945 New Yorker 23 Feb. 24/1 Long before Bernard Gimbel and Gene Tunney, the UNO site was populated by Mohegan Indians, wildcats, lynxes, beavers, moose, elk, and—according to the Mohegan Indians—unicorns.

1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. a2/2 Chief Rolling Cloud of the Mohegan and Pequot American Indian tribes.

1992 P. Frazer Mohicans of Stockbridge iii. 29 The Mohican leadership was generally sympathetic toward Christianity.

2. In form Mohican (also mohican). Designating a hairstyle in which the head is shaved except for a strip of hair running centrally from the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck.The Mohican hairstyle imitates a traditional deer-hair topknot worn by males of certain north-eastern American Indian peoples; the specific attribution to the Mohican peoples probably derives from the writings of J. Fenimore Cooper, either through conventionalized illustrations in certain editions or through film adaptations of the novels.The Mohican is now usually distinguished from the Mohawk (Mohawk n. 4) by the fact that the strip of hair is grown long and stiffened to stand erect or in spikes (a style associated particularly with punks in the 1970s and 1980s); however, in earlier use the two terms appear to have been more or less synonymous (Mohican being more usual in Britain, Mohawk more usual in the United States).

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1951 Life 6 Aug. 23/2 ( (caption) ) Mohican haircut, silly season fad in Los Angeles, is worn by Josephine Amaga.

1960 News Chron. 25 Mar. 7/5 James Greenwood, of York,..had his hair cut in Mohican style for his thirteenth birthday.

1983 G. Pearson Hooligan (BNC) 94 The ‘Mohican cut’ which had a brief moment of popularity among more outlandish Teds in the 1950s and which has reappeared with the Punks.

1994 P. Baker Blood Posse xi. 124 Her hair was still in the Mohican style.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mohican
释义	Mohicann.adj. Brit. /mə(ʊ)ˈhiːk(ə)n/, U.S. /moʊˈhik(ə)n/ Inflections: Plural Mohicans, unchanged. Forms: α. 1600s Mahiggin, 1600s– Mahican, 1700s Mahicanni, 1700s Mahiccan, 1700s Mahicon, 1700s Mahikan. β. 1600s Mawhiggin, 1600s Moheag, 1600s Moheegin, 1600s Mohege, 1600s Mohegen, 1600s Mohiganie, 1600s Mohiggener, 1600s Mohiggin, 1600s Mohigoner, 1600s 1800s Mohigan, 1600s–1700s Mohegin, 1600s–1700s Mohigon, 1700s Moheagon, 1700s Moheeg, 1700s Moheegan, 1700s Moheg, 1700s–1800s Moheagan, 1700s– Mohegan, 1800s Mohingan. γ. 1600s Manheken, 1600s Manhigan, 1600s Monahegan, 1600s Monahiganeuk, 1600s Monahigganick, 1600s Monahiggon, 1600s Monhack, 1600s Monheag, 1600s Monheagan, 1600s Monhegen, 1600s Monhegin, 1600s Monhigg, 1600s Monhiggin, 1600s Monohegen, 1600s Munhegan, 1600s Munhicke, 1600s–1700s Monhegan, 1800s– Manhingan. δ. 1600s Moheek, 1600s Moheken, 1600s Mohicand, 1700s Mahickander, 1700s Mawhickon, 1700s Moheckon, 1700s Mohekin, 1700s Mohickan, 1700s Mohickander, 1700s Mohickon, 1800s Mohecan, 1800s Mohiccon, 1800s– Moheecan. ε. 1800s– Mohican. Origin: Formed within English, by blending. Etymology: Blend of English forms of the self-designations of two Algonquian Indian peoples (see sense A. 1a). The self-designation of the Mahikans appears to have been Muhhekunneyuk (probably < a place name Muhheakunnuk denoting the tidal section of the Hudson River: the translation ‘wolf’ in quot. 1907 at sense A. 1aα. is probably mistaken) or Muhheakunneuw, and to have been transmitted via Munsee mà·hí·kan; that of the Mohegans appears to have been a form apprehended as Moyahegan (compare Moya[u]hegunnewog* people of Mohegan). Compare the early 17th-cent. Dutch forms Mahikan (1625), Mahikander (1642), Maikan (c1626), Manikan (c1633) and post-classical Latin plural forms Manhikani (1633), Mahikanenses (1635).The form Mohican in modern use is chiefly after J. Fenimore Cooper's usage (see sense A. 1b): on his choice of this spelling see quots. 1823 at sense A. 1aε. , 1826 at sense A. 1aε. . In his 1994 edition of Cooper's novel, J. McWilliams identifies Cooper's Mohicans on historical grounds as the Mohegans, although Cooper does not mention the Mahicans as a separate people (compare quot. 1826 at sense A. 1aε. ). In the 1820s Cooper probably had some personal contact with a Mohegan offshoot of the Stockbridge Indians (see note at sense A. 1a). Renderings of the Mahikan self-designation (e.g. Moheakunnuk, Mo-hee-con-neugh, Muhheakunnuk, Muh-he-con-nuk, Muhhekaneew), also occur in English contexts. A. n. 1. a. A member of either of two Algonquian peoples who formerly lived along the lower Connecticut River and on the upper reaches of the Hudson.One of these peoples (now usually called Mahican Brit. /məˈhiːk(ə)n/ , U.S. /məˈhikən/ or Mohican Brit. /mə(ʊ)ˈhiːk(ə)n/ , U.S. /moʊˈhikən/ ) formerly occupied parts of eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and north-western Connecticut; the other (now usually called Mohegan Brit. /mə(ʊ)ˈhiːɡ(ə)n/ , U.S. /moʊˈhiɡən/ or Mohican Brit. /mə(ʊ)ˈhiːk(ə)n/ , U.S. /moʊˈhikən/ ) occupied parts of eastern or south-eastern Connecticut. In historical usage, as in more recent non-specialist use, there is no clear distinction evident in forms used to denote the two peoples, and it is clear that in a number of cases the existence of two distinct peoples was not apprehended: it is impossible today to divide the early evidence decisively as denoting either one people or the other. There appears to be very little evidence before the 20th cent. for the names of the two tribes being used contrastively (but note quot. 1797 at δ. ).The Mahicans and Mohegans both suffered severe reductions in numbers and power following the arrival of the Dutch and British in the 17th cent., and by the 18th cent. were scattered from their original territories. In the 1730s a community of Mahicans, together with remnants of the Mohegan people, settled in the Christian mission village of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In the 19th cent. this group (known as the Stockbridge Indians) joined with a group of Munsee (Munsee n.) and settled on reservation land in Shawano Co., Wisconsin. The people of this reservation now identify themselves as the Mohican Nation, Stockbridge–Munsee band. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard Powhatan1608 Mohicanc1614 Massachusett1616 Penobscot1624 Pequot1631 Narragansett1637 Nipmuc1637 Algonquin1667 Wampanoag1676 Minisink1694 Abenaki1698 Lenape1728 Maliseet1749 Munsee1756 Passamaquoddy1759 Micmac1760 Podunk1797 Algic1839 Virginia Algonquian1903 α. c1614 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 788 Mahicans. 1633 Deposition 6 Nov. in N.Y. Colonial Docs. (1856) I. 78 Another nation, called the Mahiggins, would come downe thither with..every merchantable beaver skinne. 1660 tr. P. Stuyvesant in E. M. Ruttenber Tribes Hudson River (1872) 140 On the intercession of the Maquas, the Mahicans..and other tribes, we concluded a truce with our enemies. 1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 786/2 Mahican (‘wolf’). An Algonquian tribe that occupied both banks of the upper Hudson. 1956 L. A. Dyer House of Peace iv. 19 Fruit helped keep the Mahicans healthy even in winter. 1985 C. Waldman Atlas N. Amer. Indian 94/3 The Mohawks at the eastern door of the symbolic League longhouse..waged war with the Mahicans of the Hudson Valley. β. 1634 T. Yong in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1871) 4th Ser. IX. 129 Here is also the brother of the King of Mohigon who is the uppermost King that wee have mett with.1637 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 927 Moheegins.1645 J. Winthrop Declar. Former Passages 3 Lastly, Miantonimo without any provocation from Uncas.., came upon the Mohiggins with 900 or 1000 men.1660 W. Leete Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1865) 4th Ser. VII. 545 Two Mohegins..doe liue as seruants vnto mee for planting corne, cutting wood, &c.1722 S. Sewall Let.-bk. II. 142 The Mohegins are as much a distant Nation from your English Inhabitants, as our Eastern Indians are from us.1788 J. Edwards Observ. Lang. Muhhekaneew Indians 5 They..are by the Anglo-Americans, called Mohegans.1788 J. Edwards Observ. Lang. Muhhekaneew Indians 11 The Mohegans have no adjectives in all their language.1947 F. D. Downey Lusty Forefathers 127 Its student body had grown to comprise twenty-nine Indian boys and ten Indian girls—Delawares, Mohawks, Oneidas, Montauks, Mohegans, and Narragansetts.1994 Times 25 Mar. 14/5 The surviving Mohegans, about 1,000, fought a vigorous battle for recognition, spurred by the prospect of profits from gambling.γ. 1637 R. Williams Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 216 Okace the Monahiggon..carried away 40 Pequts to Monahiganick.1638 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1978) XV. 194 Neither shal the Narrongansets nor Monhegins possess any part of the Pequots Countrey.1872 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 788 Manhingans.δ. 1656 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 927 Moheken.1749 Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 June 2/2 Two Indian Converts..met lately at Bethlehem..with some of the Delaware Indians, and some of the Mohickons.1778 T. Hutchins Topogr. Descr. Virginia 66 Mohickons.1797 B. S. Barton New Views Origin Tribes & Nations Amer. p. xxxii Mr. Charles Thomson, the respectable secretary of the first American Congress, speaks of the Mohickanders and the Mahicon as two distinct tribes, but this is incorrectly done.1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXIII Mohiccons, a tribe of Indians whose habitations lie on a branch of the Susquehannah... Also an Indian tribe in the N.W. territory, which inhabits near Sandusky.1848 in F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians (1907) I. 788 Mohecan.ε. 1820 J. Heckewelder Narr. Mission United Brethren among Delaware & Mohegan Indians 418 From the commencement of this mission among the Mohicans..in 1740..unto the year 1808..between thirteen and fourteen hundred souls were baptized by the Brethren.1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. vii. 103 The principal tribes..were, the Mahicanni, Mohicans, or Mohegans, and the Nanticokes, or Nentigoes.1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. Pref. p. vi The tribe that possessed the country..was a mighty people, called the ‘Mahicanni’, or, more commonly, the ‘Mohicans’. The latter word has since been corrupted by the English, into ‘Mohegan’.1873 R. Brown Races Mankind I. 225 The Mo-hee-con-neughs (or Mohicans) are now almost extinct.1992 P. Frazer Mohicans of Stockbridge iii. 29 Clearly, not all Mohicans cared to start carrying Bibles and wearing powdered wigs. b. allusively. the last of the Mohicans [ < The Last of the Mohicans, the title of a novel (1826) by J. Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)] : the sole survivor(s) of a noble race or kind (sometimes ironic).Members of today's Mohican Nation (see note at sense A. 1a) dispute Cooper's representation of the Mohicans as having died out as an identifiable people. ΚΠ 1832 Boston Transcript 3 Apr. 2/1 We have seen the last of the Mohigans and the last of the cocked-hats, and we pray that we may be able to say, on the morrow we have seen the last of the snow-storms. 1835 C. Bradley in Ohio Archæol. & Hist. Q. (1906) 15 232 I jumped out upon the floor, all dressed, and found myself, with one exception, the last of the Mohicans. 1894 A. Lang Cock Lane 136 A hundred years after the blue stockings looked on Johnson as the last survivor, the last of the Mohicans of superstition, the Psychical Society can collect some 400 cases of haunted houses in England. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 613 Fourpence (the amount he deposited unobtrusively in four coppers, literally the last of the Mohicans). 1946 H. Howe We Happy Few 7 You can't pay attention to a thing that John Calcott says because he is the perfect product of the school—our own special Last of the Mohicans. 1982 ‘K. Blake’ Professionals: You'll be All Right ii. 14 ‘Here you are, in your own house, and looking like you've just come out of solitary.’ ‘You're the last one, Jack,’ said Bodie with a thin smile. ‘The Last of the Mohicans.’ c. In various extended uses. ΚΠ 1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. May 309 A Mohican, in Cadonian phraseology, is a tremendously heavy man, who rides five or six miles [in an omnibus] for sixpence. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon 118 You're a Mohegan with a scalplock. 2. The Eastern Algonquian language of either the Mahicans or the Mohegans.The languages of both peoples were extinct by the early 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian > Algonquian languages Illinois1703 Ojibwa1743 Chippewa1791 Shawnee1792 Miami-Illinois1804 Natick1822 Delaware1826 Munsee1828 Nanticoke1845 Blackfoot1846 Pequot1848 Potawatomi1848 Wiyot1851 Montagnais1852 Passamaquoddy1856 Abenaki1858 Narragansett1866 Lenape1888 Penobscot1891 Powhatan1895 Menominee1896 Micmac1902 Meskwaki1907 Maliseet1912 Cheyenne1933 Kickapoo1933 Massachusett1933 Mohican1933 Sauk1933 Virginia Algonquian1971 Ottawa1982 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The languages..of New England (..Mohican, and so on with Delaware to the south). 3. In form Mohican (also mohican). A Mohican hairstyle (see sense B. 2). Also: a person with such a hairstyle. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair roll1538 puff1601 Tuscan-top1602 cock-up1692 turban1727 bird's nest1730 rooter1840 coxcomb1843 roach1872 flop1900 Buster Brown1904 peppercorn1910 upsweep1946 bouffant1955 beehive1960 Prince Valiant1964 blow-dry1966 Mary Stuart1966 bouffy1970 Mohawk haircut1979 Mohican1983 fauxhawk2000 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Nov. b1 Some clients come expecting outrageous hair styles. ‘But we don't put a Mohican on someone who can't handle it.’ 1985 Sounds 27 July 19/1 Their audience, really, is in the college circuit. They're not playing in scuzzy punk clubs to mohicans. 1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 87 He doesn't come across as much of a ringleader—tatty clothes, the stub of a ginger mohican and a modest, unassuming manner. B. adj. 1. Designating or relating to the Mahicans or Mohegans (see sense A. 1a), or the Eastern Algonquian language of either people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [adjective] > Algonquians of Eastern Seaboard Massachusett1622 Pequot1634 Nipmuc1636 Mohican1637 Natick1677 Minisink1694 Algonquin1698 Passamaquoddy1726 Penobscot1727 Abenaki1746 Micmac1767 Maliseet1770 Munsee1779 Powhatan1785 Mashpee1809 Powhatanic1855 Virginia Algonquian1870 Wampanoag1948 Mashpee Wampanoag1977 1637 R. Williams Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 207 Okace the Mohiganie Sachim had about 300 men with him on Pequt river. 1643 in Rec. Mass. Bay (1853) II. 46 Concerning any advice..about the Nariganset or Mohegen sachems and their people. 1751 C. Gist Jrnls. (1893) 49 You send for one of Your Friends that can speak the Mohickon or the Mingoe Tongues well. 1768 C. Beatty Jrnl. Two Months' Tour 109 Thirty or forty of the Mohigon Indians. 1850 G. Hines Voy. round World 126 His mother was an Indian woman, a relic of the Mohican tribe. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 831/1 The Pequod and Mohegan tribes were amongst the largest and most powerful. 1884 G. Smith Short Hist. Christian Missions ii. xii. 136 In 1661–63 the Moheecan Bible, the first Bible printed in America, was printed by him [sc. John Eliot]. 1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. xxxii. 138 Peter Schuyler, and early mayor of Albany, once severely rebuked a Mohican Indian who was idling, naked, about the wharf. 1945 New Yorker 23 Feb. 24/1 Long before Bernard Gimbel and Gene Tunney, the UNO site was populated by Mohegan Indians, wildcats, lynxes, beavers, moose, elk, and—according to the Mohegan Indians—unicorns. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. a2/2 Chief Rolling Cloud of the Mohegan and Pequot American Indian tribes. 1992 P. Frazer Mohicans of Stockbridge iii. 29 The Mohican leadership was generally sympathetic toward Christianity. 2. In form Mohican (also mohican). Designating a hairstyle in which the head is shaved except for a strip of hair running centrally from the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck.The Mohican hairstyle imitates a traditional deer-hair topknot worn by males of certain north-eastern American Indian peoples; the specific attribution to the Mohican peoples probably derives from the writings of J. Fenimore Cooper, either through conventionalized illustrations in certain editions or through film adaptations of the novels.The Mohican is now usually distinguished from the Mohawk (Mohawk n. 4) by the fact that the strip of hair is grown long and stiffened to stand erect or in spikes (a style associated particularly with punks in the 1970s and 1980s); however, in earlier use the two terms appear to have been more or less synonymous (Mohican being more usual in Britain, Mohawk more usual in the United States). ΚΠ 1951 Life 6 Aug. 23/2 ( (caption) ) Mohican haircut, silly season fad in Los Angeles, is worn by Josephine Amaga. 1960 News Chron. 25 Mar. 7/5 James Greenwood, of York,..had his hair cut in Mohican style for his thirteenth birthday. 1983 G. Pearson Hooligan (BNC) 94 The ‘Mohican cut’ which had a brief moment of popularity among more outlandish Teds in the 1950s and which has reappeared with the Punks. 1994 P. Baker Blood Posse xi. 124 Her hair was still in the Mohican style. 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