Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To attack or denounce vociferously, especially so as to intimidate.
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- verb transitive To
menace through intimidating tactics; tointimidate ,harass ; toterrorize .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That Huckabee was able to associate the President with the terms mau-mau and madrasah on successive days has to qualify as sheer, surgical brilliance.
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Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco.
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Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » What’s A “Community Organizer”? 2008
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Another important reason to mau-mau the press about sexism: when you later gin up a B.S. controversy, enough journalists — you don't need all of them — will feel obligated to report it as a legitimate, he-said-she-said, who-knows-the-real-truth story, even if they really see it to be a baldfacedly cynical campaign ploy.
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Going downtown to mau-mau the bureaucrats got to be the routine practice in San Francisco.
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They have conditioned you to give in when they mau-mau.
Do Facts Matter?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Wittgenstein might complain that the person was trying to mau-mau him of that person would not take that “no” for an answer, as the they.
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The Democrats will try to mau-mau the public but it will have the reverse effect.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The Republicans will immediately begin to mau-mau them for their obvious bias and they will bend over backwards to "prove" they aren't in the tank for Obama.
Hullabaloo 2008
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As a Member of Congress and Presidential candidate, he has listened endlessly to Democrats mau-mau their opponents with rhetoric about "fairness" and the "deficit" and, best of all, the "investment needs" of the government, aka, spending.
McCain and Taxes 2008
kezboard commented on the word mau-mau
The only person I've ever witnessed use this word is Mickey Kaus. The Mickey Kaus definition of this word, as far as I can tell, is "bullying, when done by liberals".
April 28, 2009
sionnach commented on the word mau-mau
I believe that one of Tom Wolfe's early essay collections was called "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak-catchers".
April 28, 2009
bilby commented on the word mau-mau
Hmmmm. At work we have a volunteer called Mau-Mau who helps out on Fridays. He's from Myanmar.
April 28, 2009