Search: amok
Why: In "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport"
Mind me platypus duck, Bill,Answer: From Malay -
mind me platypus duck.
Don't let him go running amok, Bill,
mind me platypus duck.
All together now!
n. a murderous frenzy that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture (1665)Yipes!
adj. possessed with or motivated by a murderous or violently uncontrollable frenzy (1944)
adv. in a murderously frenzied state; in a violently raging manner
Source: Merriam Webster
The More You Know: From Answers.com:
European travelers sometimes encountered less than friendly people. Among the Malays of southeast Asia, according to an English translation in 1518 of a book by the Portuguese Duarte Barbosa, there are people called "Amuco," who "go out into the streets, and kill as many persons as they meet." Sometimes, it appears, the Amuco were soldiers. Another Portuguese account, translated in 1663, says that "all those which were able to bear arms should make themselves Amoucos, that is to say, men resolved either to dye, or vanquish." Captain Cook, in his account of his voyages in the 1770s, offers that "To run amock is to get drunk with opium ... to sally forth from the house, kill the person or persons supposed to have injured the Amock, and any other person that attempts to impede his passage."
