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.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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