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Siwash, n. N. Amer.|ˈsaɪwɒʃ|
Also Si-wash, siwash.
[Chinook Jargon, a N. Amer. Fr. dial. form of Fr. sauvage (savage a.) in same sense.]
1. a. An Indian, spec. of the North Pacific Coast. Freq. attrib. (Now considered pejorative.)
1847J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. 150 Si-wash Indians. a1861T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1883) ii. 18 The three unsavory..mat-haired, truculent siwashes. 1869[see Haida a. and n.]. 1870[see Aleutian a. and n.]. 1897Outing XXX. 541/1 As we neared the Narrows other Siwashes in other queer-looking canoes paddled out. 1904E. Robins Magnetic North 293 You soon learn it is the Siwash custom. 1949Boston Globe 15 May (Fiction Mag.) 3/2 The Siwash showed him a poke of coarse gold. 1967C. L. Evans Newel Post 6 He was looking portly in a heavy Siwash sweater, and unselfconsciously wearing the knitted hat to match.
b. transf. A name of opprobrium; occas. joc.
1882Edmonton Bull. 3 June 4/3 Does this great chieftain think new settlers are a community of Siwashes or cringing dependants. 1924C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley xiii. 158 So-long, you Siwash! 1964P. Berton Golden Trail 23, I wouldn't go across the river on that old Siwash's word.
2. Chinook Jargon, the lingua franca of the North Pacific Coast Indians.
1902Skagway Daily Alaskan 23 Aug. 3/1 The governor was forced back upon his ability to talk siwash, hoping thereby to control the Indian vote. 1908R. Beach Barrier 56 Address me in Siwash or in English unless we are alone. 1936W. B. Mowery Paradise Trail 14 That's what Saghelia means in Siwash—the purty land..paradise.
3. Comb., as Siwash camp, an open camp with no tent; Siwash duck, a scoter of the genus Melanitta.
192219th Cent. Feb. 267 At night they would build a ‘siwash’ camp, digging a big hole in the snow, lining it with green spruce boughs and building up a three-foot wall of green spruce trees for a windbreak on back and sides. 1962M. F. Murie Two in Far North ii. x. 197 We had only about twelve miles to travel from our siwash camp to Tramway Bar.
1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 30 Apr. 10/1, I finally caught Mr. Indian just as he was coming ashore with his ducks, he had about 60 or 70 in the canoe, but they were mostly scoter or what is more commonly called Siwash ducks. 1927Blackw. Mag. Aug. 207/2 He could see when any siwash ducks were on a shallow part of the lagoon. 1966Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 20 Mar. 11/4 It is a rare occurrence for a Siwash duck, as the species [sc. surf scoter] is commonly called, to be found on such a shoreline. |