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Name of contempt for Mahomet, a Moslem, a Moor. In Scotland it used to mean devil.
“There’s the son of the renegade—spawn of Mahoun (son of the Moorish princess).”—Vengeance of Mudarra.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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