Mohawk
n. 莫霍克族, 莫霍克语, 前刃变后刃溜冰半周跳
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A member of an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario, the easternmost of the Iroquois Five Nations.
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A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.
鸡冠头
莫西干
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A member of a gang (the Mohocks) that terrorized London in the early 18th century.
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The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people.
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Mohawk River, the largest tributary of the Hudson River, New York.
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From Dutch Mohawk. An exonym, probably from Narragansett Mohowaúgsuck, Mauquàuog, meaning “they eat (animate things)”, “cannibals”. The phoneme /m/ is not present in the Mohawk language; the Mohawk autonym is Kanienʼkehá꞉kaʼ (Kanienkehaka, Kanyenkehaka).
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