Mohican

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An indigenous people of New England; the Mohicans.

    "The Mohican are an Algonquian-speaking people."

  2. 2
    The Mohegan people.
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of this tribe; a Mohican.
  2. 2
    the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican wordnet
  3. 3
    A Mohegan.
  4. 4
    a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic wordnet
  5. 5
    A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair in the centre kept long and made to stand on end. Australia, UK

Etymology

Etymology 1

From their self-designation in Mahican [Term?] (literally “people of the estuary”).

Etymology 2

From their self-designation in Mahican [Term?] (literally “people of the estuary”).

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