Mohican
pronunciation
How to pronounce Mohican in British English:
UK [məʊˈhi:kən]
How to pronounce Mohican in American English:
US [moʊˈhikən]
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- Noun:
- a member of the Algonquian people formerly living the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic
- the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican people
- haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp
Word Origin
- Mohican
- from Mahican (Algonquian) ma:hi:kan "people of the tidal estuary." Spelling with -o- popularized by James Fenimore Cooper's novel.
Example
- 1. The algonquian language spoken by the mohican people .
- 2. We gave a winston churchill statue a mohican made out of turf and we smashed up the odd burger franchise !
- 3. Only , they just lefy us all thinking that any alternative to capitalism would involve kicking in mcdonald 's and giving churchill a mohican .