Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.332
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.332
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1768-71.—"These acts of indiscriminate murder are called by us Mucks, because the perpetrators of them, during their frenzy, continually cry out amok, amok, which signifies kill, kill. . ."—*Stavorinus*, i. 291.