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mohawk

/ˈmoʊhɔːk/

mohawk is the alternative letter-case form of Mohawk.

Noun capitalized: Mohawk

Mohawk (plural Mohawks or Mohawk)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
    Synonyms:
    Iroquois, Mohican
  3. (historical) A member of a gang (the Mohocks) that terrorized London in the early 18th century.

Proper noun capitalized: Mohawk

Mohawk

  1. The Iroquoian language spoken by these North American indigenous people.
  2. Mohawk River, the largest tributary of the Hudson River, New York.

Synonyms of mohawk

Forms of mohawk

pluralmohawks
pluralMohawks
pluralMohawk
plural"Mohawks" in all other senses

Origin of mohawk

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).

Words formed from mohawk

Phrases with mohawk

Questions about mohawk

What does mohawk mean?
Mohawk means 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.
What is mohawk the alternative letter-case form of?
Mohawk is the alternative letter-case form of Mohawk.
What part of speech is mohawk?
Mohawk can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mohawk?
Mohawk is pronounced /ˈmoʊhɔːk/.
What is the plural of mohawk?
The plural of mohawk is mohawks.

Words near mohawk in the dictionary

  1. mohassil
  2. mohassils
  3. mohatra
  4. Mohave
  5. Mohave County
  6. mohawk
  7. Mohawk River
  8. Mohawk Vista
  9. mohawked
  10. Mohawkian
  11. Mohawkism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mohawk (page history and authors); Mohawk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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