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wickiup U.S.|ˈwɪkɪʌp| Also wick(e)yup, wickie-up, wi(c)kiup; wakiup, wackie-up. [ad. American Indian (Menominee wikiop, Saki wekeab; cf. Cree mekewap, Montagnais mitshiuap); perh. a variant of wikiwam, wigwam.] A rude hut consisting of a frame covered with brushwood or the like, used by nomadic peoples in the west and south-west. Hence extended to any small hut or shanty.
1857Jrnl. Discourses (1858) V. 80 After feeding to our guide some bread and water..we asked which was the way to Jacob's ‘Wickyup’. 1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. xiii. 273 An Indian ranchero where several willow wickyups were built upon the bank of a cold brook. 1874T. B. Aldrich Prud. Palfrey vii, A city of tents, pine-huts, and rude brush wakiups. 1876Sun (N.Y.) 10 May 2/6 Come up and see me at my wickiup in Montana. 1905Pearson's Mag. XIX. 359 The American Indian uses his ‘wackie-up’ as a mere stopping place for a night or two while trekking across country. 1930E. Ferber Cimarron i. 11 He was raised in a tepee; a wickiup had been his bedroom, a blanket his robe. 1959E. Tunis Indians 110/1 In winter the Diggers put their wickiups over pits for additional warmth, just as the Basketmakers did. 1973‘P. Buchanan’ Requiem of Sharks xi. 111 In the slang of the Pascagoula Indians, she was built like a brick wickiup. |