Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

MOHOCKS

Date "MOHOCKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1882. (references)


Specialty Definition: MOHOCKS

DomainDefinition

Literature

Mohocks A class of ruffians who in the 18th century infested the streets of London. So called from the Indian Mohawks. One of their "new inventions" was to roll persons down Snow Hill in a
Tub; another was to overturn coaches on rubbish-heaps. (See Gay: Trivia, iii.)
A vivid picture of the misdoings in the streets of London by these and other brawlers is given in The Spectator, No. 324.
"You sent your Mohocks next abroad,
With razors armed, and knives;
Who on night-walkers made inroad,
And scared our maids and wives;
They scared the watch, and windows broke . . ."
Plot upon Plot (about 1713). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Crosswords: MOHOCKS

Specialty definitions using "MOHOCKS": CHALKERSHawkubitesScowerers. (references)

Top     

Anagrams: MOHOCKS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-k-m-o-o-s"

-1 letter: chooks, smooch.

-2 letters: chook, cohos, cooks, hocks, homos, hooks, mocks, mooch, schmo, shock, shook, smock, socko.

-3 letters: coho, cook, coos, cosh, hock, homo, hook, mhos, mock, mocs, moos, mosh, mosk, ohms, oohs, shmo, shoo, sock, sook.

-4 letters: coo, cos, kos, mho, moc, moo, mos, ohm, oho, ohs, oms, ooh, som.

-5 letters: hm, ho, mo, oh.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-k-m-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: hommocks.

 

+3 letters: checkrooms, matchbooks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: MOHOCKS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 4F 48 4F 43 4B 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    ....    ---    -.-.    -.-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01001000 01001111 01000011 01001011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#72 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0048 004F 0043 004B 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47494249374553

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.