Do we say amok or amuck

amok 28 occurrences

The enemy often runs amok like this:"On August 23rd, the Curé of Réméréville tended Lieutenant Toussaint (who passed out first at the Forestry School in July).

he gasped; "I knew that whisky was wonderful stuff, but I never believed it could turn a worm into a Malay running amok."

There's no sense in running amok.

Mike had not been well disposed toward the invaders before, but now he ran amok, hitting out right and left at random.

He suddenly abandoned science and ran amok.

Placido was by this time under the influence of the amok, as the Malayists say.

A concentrated, never-absent self-respect, an habitual self-restraint in word and deed, very rarely broken except when extreme provocation induces the transitory but fatal frenzy known as 'amok,' and an inbred courtesy, equally diffused through all classes, high or low, unfailing decorum, prudence, caution, quiet cheerfulness, ready hospitality and a correct, though not inventive taste.

The pedantic attempt made by some writers to change the common way of writing it because the original Malay term is a single word, "amok," comes too late in view of Dryden's line, "And runs an Indian muck at all he meets.

There is, however, the possibility that the patient during the progress of the malady may become delirious and run amok; for these more dangerous symptoms it would be well for his neighbours to keep watch and guard.

And that morning I was like a Malay running amok.

[Illustration: RUNNING AMOK GERMAN BULL: "I know I'm making a rotten exhibition of myself; but I shall tell everybody I was goaded into it."]

If for a ball or two you let me smite you, Running amok with dashing bat and bold,

No wonder that some, hearing this dread sentence, go half crazy in a frenzied effort to clutch at what remains, run amok, so to say, in their despairing determination to have, if need be, a last "good time" and die.

PAUL, CEDAR, tr. Amok.

PAUL, EDEN, tr. Amok.

(With Amok & Letter from an unknown woman) NM: translation & compilation.

PAUL, CEDAR, tr. Amok.

PAUL, EDEN, tr. Amok.

(With Amok & Letter from an unknown woman) NM: translation & compilation.

Amok; Novellen einer Leidenschaft.

He runs amok scattering the cattle in all directions.

On one occasion, a monkey demon runs amok, harassing the people and ravaging the country.

But what if the experiment failed, and these colossal powers ran amok upon the worldand upon the invokers?

A Malay, crazed with opium and ready to run amok, could not present a more savage spectacle than this man did as he swayed in his saddle, grinding his teeth, clutching his rifle, and glaring at Coronado.

You've been running amok to-day, and it's been altogether too lively to be just pleasant.

amuck 40 occurrences

"And take the risk of getting a hole punched in our pretty paint, with her running amuck that way?

He had come within an eyelash of running amuck, and the quivering hunger for action was still swelling and ebbing in him when he reached the gambler's house.

"It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a high spirit of right and fairness because we act without animus, not in enmity towards a people or with the desire to bring any injury or disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of right and is running amuck.

"But hope you'll not run amuck in the after cabin.

You can't tell when his mind is in condition for running amuck, but suddenly he will whoop like a drunken man, strike his poor patient wife over the back with his trunk and grab her tail and try to pull it out by the roots, and jump up and crack his heels together like a drunken shoemaker, and bellow as though he was saying he was a bad man from Bitter Creek.

When a criminal runs amuck, he will not kill a half-score of brave men before he is captured.

V. be violent &c adj.; run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage, go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough house

lose one's temper &c 900; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool [Coll.]; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck;

And so he's ready to run amuck.

At the end of about ten days, I'd run amuck.

Up by Mexico Creek, Bud Wilkinson had a grey stallion that run amuck on his range.

So she had let her fancy run amuck, so to speak, and behind the merciful screen of trees there was now what Lew Hervey profanely termed: "A whole damn rainbow gone plumb crazy.

A scene of indescribable terror ensued, the soldiers, who had broken into the wine-shops and drunk themselves into a state of frenzy, practically running amuck, breaking in doors and shooting at every one they saw.

You can't let him run amuck like this.

If they don't find a responsible representative they'll probably run amuck and get up to mischief.

His nerves were so wrought up that to look about the magnificent but too palace-like, too hotel-like rooms was to struggle with a longing to run amuck and pause not until he had reduced the splendor to smithereens.

When a mad dog runs amuck in a village it is the duty of every farmer to get his gun and destroy it, not to lock himself indoors and toward the dog and the men who face him preserve a neutral mind.

SULLIVAN, LAWRENCE. Bureaucracy runs amuck.

Bureaucracy runs amuck.

So began an exceedingly acrimonious and emotional discussion, which ended for Mrs. Cave in a peculiar nervous condition midway between hysterics and amuck, and caused the step-son to be half-an-hour late at the furniture establishment in the afternoon.

In the dining room, however, there were chairs of a substantial type, for patients seldom run amuck at meal time.

Friends have said to me: "Well, what is to be done when a patient runs amuck?"

The best answer I can make is: "Do nothing to make him run amuck."

Here and there in New England, following the great immigration from Old England, from 1630-40, during the Commonwealth, and to the Restoration, several cases of witchcraft occurred, but the mania did not set its seal on the minds of men, and inspire them to run amuck in their frenzy, until the days of the swift onset in Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1692, when the zenith of Satan's reign was reached in the Puritan colonies.

" Away back, when herds of buffalo grazed along the foothills of the western mountains, two hardy prospectors fell in with a bull bison that seemed to have been separated from his kind and run amuck.

Do we say   amok   or  amuck