(n.) One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.
(n.) One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overall, an attractive, Mohawked Nasa scientist is a fun thing to talk about.
(2) Last year, he was picked to pitch in with Kanye West’s Yeezus sessions along with Hudson Mohawke, Gesaffelstein and Evian Christ, despite few people knowing who he was.
(3) Andersen, who has a 'mohawk' hairstyle and a past which includes a drugs ban, joined the Miami Heat after leaving the Nuggets.
(4) With a green mohawk, colored to match his wrist wraps and the lettering on his team’s shirts, Andrew ‘Big Diesel’ Dziezak steps up to the deadlift bar bearing a weight of 385 lbs.
(5) In order to help define the boundaries of the distribution of the albumin variants Naskapi and Mexico which are polymorphic among several American Indian groups, we examined sera from Micmac, Mohawk, Northwest River Naskapi, Omaha and Apache Indians, and from Aleuts and Eskimos.
(6) His feathery mohawk is even more preposterous than that of the man he's just replaced.
(7) The baby does have an impressive mohawk, but it’s quite flat at this early stage,” Wright said.
(8) They want to function entirely – in our case Mohawk – that’s how they want to live their lives.” Still, of Canada’s roughly 60 indigenous languages, only Cree, Ojibwa and Inuktituk – an Inuit language – are currently predicted to survive.
(9) Ferdowsi, also known as "Nasa Mohawk Guy" , became an internet sensation after his unusual hairdo caught the eye of those watching the Mars Curiosity landing on Nasa TV.
(10) August 6, 2012 The third element of the Nasa Mohawk Guy meme that contributes to its popularity is that it provides a framework for cultural commentary and content creation.
(11) Among the Mohawk children, the earliest segmentation of words was phonological rather than morphological: stressed syllables, usually penultimate or antepenultimate, were extracted first.
(12) The authors report the rates of obesity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, smoking, and macrovascular and microvascular complications among Mohawks of Kahnawake, PQ, who have non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
(13) Instead of Moe's Tavern, the town has the Mohawk Tavern, where Christina Ruth, 33, serves $2 (£1.25) beers ($1 during happy hour) and shots of rum-filled jelly to customers who stop on the way home from work for what they term a "drunk on".
(14) Despite the fact that his tattoos, mohawks and on-court demeanor make him look like at best a sideshow geek and at worst a particularly irredeemable inmate on Oz , Chris "Birdman" Andersen has actually been the Heat's most valuable bench player, contributing big on defense and making all of his shots during the Eastern Conference finals.
(15) Participating in the Nasa Mohawk Guy meme can communicate many things: I celebrate nonconformity; I am a member of the Persian community; I encourage the expression of individuality in the workplace; I feel that science is important and cool.
(16) 14 min: A decent scoring opportunity for Brazil goes to waste after a disappointingly leaden-footed touch from Neymar, who is sporting an interesting mohawk type barnet that makes him resemble a toilet brush.
(17) With plans to offer the album as a free download , Sinden recruited some of the UK's top grime producers and MCs, including Terror Danjah, Wiley, Hudson Mohawke and Rustie.
(18) n. (Hirudinea: Piscicolidae) is described from the white sucker, Catostomus commersoni Lacépède (Osteichthyes: Catostomidae) from the Mohawk River drainage of eastern New York.
(19) The work includes photographs from Randall Park Mall, a Cleveland-area shopping centre being demolished after five years of vacancy, and Rolling Acres, to which the tattooed, mohawk-sporting photographer returned in late May.
(20) Truth in ancient wisdom #1 Mohawk and Dene people in North America and Canada were traditionally encouraged during pregnancy to rise early and stay active, chopping kindling and walking plenty, while eating just enough good foods for a healthy baby (but not too much, so they don't block the exit).
Mohican
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
(2) Non-mainstream economists who have retired, or have left, have not been replaced, and the lecturer who agreed to run "Bubbles" for us is on a short-term contract, the Last of the Mohicans.
(3) A branch of McDonald's was attacked, a statue of Winston Churchill was given a grass Mohican, and the Cenotaph was graffitied.
(4) I locate the mohican of one of her co-writers, Chuck Lightning (the other is called Nate Wonder), and ask him who arranges the Disney-style string sections on Monáe's records, who writes what she calls the "classy brass"?
(5) Writers such as Washington Irving (in his short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and James Fenimore Cooper (in The Last of the Mohicans ) had begun to pioneer American subjects in a distinctive American voice.
(6) Monday morning is not, by tradition, the high-functioning point in a young musician's week, but Healy is alert and engaging, balanced on the outer limit of a sofa, pawing his greased mohican with one hand and a takeaway cup of coffee with the other.
(7) As an adolescent, she sported a blue mohican as wide as the blade on a circular saw and came top in many yearbook categories: Class Clown, Most Bizarre Girl, Most Likely To Go Bald at School.
(8) After that, he played a series of memorable roles: quadriplegic artist Christy Brown in My Left Foot (for which he won an Oscar); the feral Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans; half-crazed Gerry Conlon wrongfully imprisoned for his role in the Guildford bombing in In the Name of the Father; the cold repressed lover in Scorsese's The Age of Innocence.
(9) Here I can find designer clothes no one else has," she said, sporting a rainbow-coloured mohican haircut.
(10) "You wouldn't ask that question if you turned up to some of the auditions and saw some of the people with Mohican hair painted pink and bones through their nose," Sugar said at the programme launch on Tuesday.
(11) The real Jonathan is warm and bearish, with a mohican, chic specs, a scarlet fleece, hippyish brown leather shoes – loads of visual flair.
(12) To be a mohican-wearing punk in London is to be a kitsch throwback – but in Indonesia or Burma, it can put you on the receiving end of heinous treatment from the authorities.
(13) "When we watch things at the theatre that we don't like," says Allen, "we try to imagine that everyone on stage has a razor-thin, pink Mohican that's about a foot high.
(14) Salinger's departure means that his nearest surviving contemporaries, the last of the Mohicans, are the youthful figures of Philip Roth (76) and Gore Vidal (84).
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close There's a bit of a carnival atmosphere with people dressed up as robots and one man with a mohican and a thick gold chain holding a banner saying "Mr T party movement".
(16) Forget the frantic hairstyles (skinhead, Mohican, ponytail, kiss-curl, spiky, slicked back, bleached, etc) and the wretched tattoos.