👉 Okay, let’s tackle this rather… prickly little piece of 20th-century English slang:
Hawhawkȟ́anid'.
(Okay, I just butchered a bit of Chippewa for effect, that's how the word evolved, we'll get to it. It's a weird one.)
Basically, during the late 1970s and early 80s in the UK, "hawkȟ́anid'’ started circulating as a ridiculously overblown, aggressively macho insult. Think of the most obnoxious, utterly convinced-he's-tough guy you know – maybe he wears stonewashed everything, has a comb-over that hasn't seen a blow-dryer since 1982, and somehow believes he’s perpetually on the brink of a massive, life-altering decision. That dude was essentially a "hawkȟ́anid'," in this very specific, and frankly rather pathetic way. Here's what we actually know (and there isn’t a huge amount! It's delightfully obscure. The exact origin is hazy, but here's the most widely accepted theory): The word supposedly came from a misheard/distorted recollection of a Chippewa (Dakota and Sau Sau) exclamation of war-readiness: "Niháȟča ȟkíí’! ", meaning roughly, something along the lines of
