Associations to the word «Mohicans»

Wiktionary

MOHICAN, proper noun. An indigenous people of New England; the Mahicans.
MOHICAN, proper noun. (erroneous) The Mohegan people.
MOHICAN, noun. A member of this tribe; a Mahican.
MOHICAN, noun. (erroneous) A Mohegan.
MOHICAN, noun. (British) A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair in the centre kept long and made to stand on end: a Mohawk.

Dictionary definition

MOHICAN, noun. A member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic.
MOHICAN, noun. The Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats