英语词汇mohawks的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Mohawks. The Mohawk Indians were one of the smallest tribes of the Iroquois League of Five Nations, but were probably the most fierce and aggressive. In fact, Mohawk comes from Mohowawok, “man-eaters,” a name given the tribe by their ene- mies, the Narragansett. Living along the Mohawk River in New York State from Schenectady to Utica, the Mohawks sided with the British during the Revolution, but the British did not honor their name in English, Mohawk or Mohock being used as early as 1711 to indicate one of a class of aristocratic ruffians who in- fested the streets of London. These Mohocks were said to have mauled passers-by “in the same cruel manner which the Mo- hawks . . . were supposed to do,” being in Swift’s words: “a race of rakes . . . that play the devil about the town every night, slit people’s noses, and beat them.”

词汇	mohawks
词源	Mohawks. The Mohawk Indians were one of the smallest tribes of the Iroquois League of Five Nations, but were probably the most fierce and aggressive. In fact, Mohawk comes from Mohowawok, “man-eaters,” a name given the tribe by their ene- mies, the Narragansett. Living along the Mohawk River in New York State from Schenectady to Utica, the Mohawks sided with the British during the Revolution, but the British did not honor their name in English, Mohawk or Mohock being used as early as 1711 to indicate one of a class of aristocratic ruffians who in- fested the streets of London. These Mohocks were said to have mauled passers-by “in the same cruel manner which the Mo- hawks . . . were supposed to do,” being in Swift’s words: “a race of rakes . . . that play the devil about the town every night, slit people’s noses, and beat them.”
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