Both Uses of
amok
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- And, says Mr Dixon, if ever he got scent of a cattleraider in Roscommon or the wilds of Connemara or a husbandman in Sligo that was sowing as much as a handful of mustard or a bag of rapeseed out he'd run amok over half the countryside rooting up with his horns whatever was planted and all by lord Harry's orders.†
Chpt 14
- Don't run amok!†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(amok) energetic and out of control -- especially in a dangerous way