Mohican

[moh-hee-kuh n]

noun, plural Mo·hi·cans, (especially collectively) Mo·hi·can.

Mahican.

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Historical Examples of mohican

"Uncas will stay," the young Mohican calmly answered in English.
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
The violence of the exertion cast the young Mohican at his side.
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
A difficult matter it was, too, to keep this Mohican boy snug in the ambushment.
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
Whenever we had met a dark-haired person, he had said to me: "Do you think that is a Mohican?"
A Jolly Fellowship
Frank R. Stockton
It was the Mohican and Lenape who veiled their faces, not the Iroquois.
The Reckoning
Robert W. Chambers

British Dictionary definitions for mohican

mohican

noun

a punk hairstyle in which the head is shaved at the sides and the remaining strip of hair is worn stiffly erect and sometimes brightly coloured

a person wearing such a hairstyle

Mohican

Mahican (məˈhiːkən)

noun

plural -cans or -can a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Hudson river and east of it

the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

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Word Origin and History for mohican

Mohican

from Mahican (Algonquian) ma:hi:kan "people of the tidal estuary." Spelling with -o- popularized by James Fenimore Cooper's novel.