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单词 mohock
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Mohockn.

Brit. /ˈməʊhɒk/, U.S. /ˈmoʊˌhɑk/
Forms: 1700s mohack, 1700s mohauk, 1700s mohoack, 1700s– mohock, 1800s mohawk.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: Mohawk n.
Etymology: Originally a variant of Mohawk n., now usually distinguished in form in sense 1.
1. 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 (gen.): any hooligan or delinquent. Now historical and archaic.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > frequenting streets > aristocratic
Tityre-tu1623
Mohock?1711
tumbler1712
scarlet1755
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans > member of gang of hooligans
whitecap1607
shrove-prentice1638
Mohock?1711
sweater1712
highbinder1806
hoodlum1871
hooligan1898
hood1930
skolly1934
tear-away1938
gunsel1942
Teddy boy1954
hell's angel1956
angel1965
bikie1967
skinhead1969
bovver boy1970
boot-boy1977
casual1980
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets > aristocratic
Tityre-tu1623
Mohock?1711
tumbler1712
scarlet1755
?1711 Hist. Mohocks 4/2 They would lead us by another way into the Game of Fortyone, and under the Names of Mohocks, are beating out the Brains of those that will not come out to play with them.
1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Mar. (1948) II. 508 Did I tell you of a race of Rakes calld the Mohacks that play the devil about this Town every Night, slit peoples noses, & beat them &c.
1717 M. Prior Alma iii. 231 But give him Port, and potent Sack; From Milk-sop He starts up Mohack.
1758 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 23 May (1932) (modernized text) V. 2304 The other..[lie] that Prince Eugene intended to murder Lord Oxford, by employing a set of people called Mohocks (which Society, by the way never existed).
1789 M. Madan in tr. Persius Satires (1795) 111 (note) Nero..was a kind of Mohock in his diversions.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. ii. xi. 289 A large band of those young men, who, under the name of Mohawks, were wont to scour the town nightly.
1894 J. Knight D. Garrick vii. 111 Garrick [had] an experience of stage mohocks.
1940 Mod. Lang. Notes 55 293 [Lord Hinchinbrooke's] reputation as a rake is established by the fact that he was taken up as a Mohock in 1712.
1982 19th-cent. Fiction 36 404 Henry [Esmond] may have in mind the aristocratic street-ruffians who were called Mohocks at this time.
1992 E. Pearce Election Rides iv. 37 Window posters are doing well, so are huge, four-foot-square diamonds... We learn later that there has been trouble about these, with suburban delinquents, junior Mohocks, tearing signs down.
2005 J. Hurl-Eamon Gender & Petty Violence London iii. 41 Constables' searches of their wards for Mohocks or their victims was largely fruitless.
2. A tool for cutting and trimming. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > others
ripper1659
Mohock1721
pinking iron1761
stock knife1799
sapper1822
ice plough1830
race knife1832
dresser1860
race-tool1867
pen-maker1875
stone-cutter1875
twinning-machine1875
nail cutter1876
paper cutter1880
guillotine1883
miller1890
flaker1891
undercutter1891
race1904
lino-cutter1907
gang mower1917
go-devil1918
rotary cutter1936
stripping-bill1968
fragmentizer1972
1721 in Proc. Orkney Antiquarian Soc. (1933) 11 41 To a Penknife and mohoack..14s.
1742 Select Trials Old-Bailey (new ed.) III. 354 A Tool, they call a Mohock..is a Cock-Fighting Tool; it's of no Use in the World, but to cut Cocks Spurs with.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. xxiv. 160 Bob Tench..had always a little phial of Fryars Balsam in his pocket, some..court-plaister, as well as his cork-screw and mohock.

Compounds

General attributive.
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1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 324. ¶1 A Set of Men..who have lately erected themselves into a Nocturnal Fraternity, under the Title of the Mohock Club.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xxiv. 224 It stood the silent witness of many an exciting and auspicious event after the Great Fire, the period which marked the removal of its predecessor. These would include state pageants and Lord Mayor's processions innumerable; Mohock and 'prentice raids, Templar frolics, exhibitions of traitors' heads; [etc.].
2005 J. Hurl-Eamon Gender & Petty Violence,London iii. 42 The Mohock scare was fueled by detailed descriptions of the men and the types of violence they had allegedly perpetrated.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Mohockv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Mohock n.
Etymology: < Mohock n.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To behave like a Mohock. Also transitive: to assail or maltreat in the manner of a Mohock.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harshness > [verb (transitive)] > as mohock
Mohock1712
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > treat violently [verb (transitive)] > in specific manner
Mohock1712
whitecap1889
massage1927
1712 J. Gay Mohocks ii. 14 There now, good Woman, while you thought he was upon the Watch, he was about a Mohocking—Why he is a Mohock.
1718 Entertainer No. 12. 76 We love Mischief for Mischief's sake, and can..break windows,..knock down Old Women,..and Mohock the Tories.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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