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Hoochinoo|ˈhuːtʃɪnuː|
Also Hootsenoo, etc.
[ad. Tlingit Hutsnuwu, lit. ‘grizzly bear fort’.]
1. A member of a small Indian people found in Admiralty Island, Alaska. Also attrib. or as adj. In pl., this people.
1878Dennis in W. G. Morris Rep. Customs Dist. Alaska (1879) 122 On top of this there came a fight among the Hootzenoo Indians here. 1890M. Ballou New Eldorado (ed. 5) 321 We pass the Indian village of Kootznahoo, occupied by a tribe of the same name, a people who have always proved to be restless and aggressive. 1915J. Muir Trav. Alaska (1917) 211 They were about to set out on an expedition to the Hootsenoos to collect blankets as indemnity or blood-money for the death of a Chilcat woman from drinking whiskey furnished by one of the Hootsenoo tribe.
2. (Usu. with lower-case initial.) An alcoholic liquor made by Alaskan Indians, esp. the Hoochinoo people; also any inferior alcoholic drink (esp. whisky) in Alaska and the Canadian north-west.
1877Puget Sound Argus (Pt. Townsend, Wash.) 23 Nov., I have frequently seen soldiers go to the Indian ranch for their morning drink of kootznehoo. c1898in P. Berton Centennial Food Guide (1966) 58/2 Whenever whisky runs short the Yukoner falls back upon a villanous decoction..known as ‘hootchinoo’, or ‘hootch’. 1899Boston Jrnl. 11 Jan. 4/5 Recently the House gave its official sanction to the word by enacting that no whisky, beer or ‘hoochinoo’ shall be sold in Alaska. 1937C. L. Andrews Wrangell & Gold of Cassiar 49 A discharged soldier named Doyle..went to Hootznahoo, showed them how to distill a villainous compound from molasses, yeast, berries, sugar, or other compounds. It was first so called from the village, ‘Hootznahoo’ paraphrased as ‘Hoochinoo’. 1958P. Berton Klondike Fever 27 Another was to collect the excise duty on all locally made hootchinoo.
b. In full hoochinoo still. A still for the manufacture of hoochinoo.
1879Chicago Tribune 14 May 6/3 We accidentally dropped upon a hootchenoo still in full operation. 1883J. Wright Among Alaskans 150 Mr. Dennis had appointed the most reliable Indians as policemen, giving them authority, under United States revenue customs laws, to seize and destroy the hoochinoos or whisky-stills. |