单词 | mohock |
释义 | Mohockn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To behave like a Mohock. Also transitive: to assail or maltreat in the manner of a Mohock. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.?1711v.1712 |
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