coyoten.

Brit.

/kɔɪˈəʊti/,

/kʌɪˈəʊti/, U.S.

/ˈkaɪoʊt/,

/kaɪˈoʊdi/

Forms: Also cayeute, cayote, kiota.

Etymology: < Mexican Spanish coyote, < coyotl, the name in a Central American Indian language of Mexico.

1. Zoology. The name, in Mexico and now in the United States, of the prairie- or barking-wolf ( Canis latrans) of the Pacific slope of North America.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis latrans (coyote)

prairie wolf1804

coyote1824

barking wolf1826

Mearns coyote1917

a1628 F. Hernandez Nova Plant., etc. Mex. (1651) 4.

1793 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 3) I. 257 Coyotl seu vulpes Indica.]

1824 W. Bullock Six Months' Residence Mexico 119 Saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.

1824 W. Bullock Six Months' Residence Mexico 261 Mexico produces an animal which seems to connect the wolf, fox, and dog: it is called the cocyotie.

1824 W. Bullock Six Months' Residence Mexico 311 Cages in which lions, tigers, wolves, cayatoo, and wild cats were confined.

1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems (Boston) 14 The little gray collotes [sic] or prairie wolves, who are as rapacious and as noisy as their bigger brethren.

1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. vi. 51 The cayeute,..or medicine-wolf of the Indians.

a1848 G. F. A. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) 250 One may safely wager to see a dozen cayeutes or prairie wolves loping round.

1849 E. Bryant What I saw in California (ed. 5) xix. 219 A species of jackal called here the coyote, frequently approached within a few rods of us.

1850 B. Taylor Eldorado (1862) viii. 77 We saw the coyotes..prowling along the margin of the slough.

1850 W. R. Ryan Personal Adventures Calif. I. 250 Our horses..were set free by the cayotes—a species of animal something between a fox and a dog.

1860 Oregon Argus 24 Nov. You may guess there was but little meat on it when the kiotas left it.

1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 213 Several coyotés and a skunk.

1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xxii Wildest of all beasts is the wolf, and wildest of all wolves is the coyote.

1884 W. Shepherd Prairie Experiences 42 The cayote will sneak in, and have his pickings on the offal.

in extended use.1872 S. Powers Afoot & Alone 277 Many slouching fellows..are really squatters or ‘coyotes’.1890 Chicago Advance 20 Nov. Many ‘coyotes,’ as the Mexicans call the half breed population.1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xvi. 266 She's married to Benton Sharp, a coyote and a murderer.1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 243 I'll not be such a coyote any more.1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xii. 128 Lookit my hat..! Some coyote shot at me from up on Pine Mountain an' plumb ruined it!1948 New Mexico Q. Rev. Summer 198 Often coyote is used as a synonym for native, and is applied to Indians and mestizos (mixed bloods), as readily as to plants.

2. transferred. A horse of the colour of a coyote.

ΚΠ

1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy ii. 14 It was my good fortune to get a good mount of horses..three sorrels, two grays, two coyotes, a black, a brown, and a grulla.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

coyote-skin n.

ΚΠ

1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada x. 219 Floor of pine, and Coyote-skin rug.

coyote-wolf n.

ΚΠ

1850 L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah i. 13 We were serenaded by the Coyote wolf.

1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 382 At nightfall the coyoté-wolves..left their hiding places.

C2.

coyote diggings n. small shafts sunk by miners in California, compared to the holes of the coyote.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft > like coyote holes

coyote diggings1850

coyote hole1851

1850 San Francisco Picayune 31 Aug. 3/1 There are Coyoto Diggings..from which, at the depth of from 17 to 25 feet, $23,000 have been taken out in two days.

1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. 138 The coyote diggings require to be very rich to pay.

1948 New Mexico Q. Rev. Summer 199 In mining lingo of early California, derived from the Mexicans, ‘coyote holes’ or ‘coyote diggings’ were small drift tunnels.

coyote getter n. (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > trap for other animals

wolf pen1647

otter trap1659

marten trap1743

bear trap1771

sable-trap1784

coyote getter1961

1961 New Scientist 13 Apr. 17/1 What the Americans bluntly call ‘coyote getters’. These small, mushroom-like appliances, fixed to a metal stake in the ground, are capable of firing a small-calibre cartridge loaded with sodium cyanide.

coyote hole n. = coyote diggings n. (see also quot. 1906).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft > like coyote holes

coyote diggings1850

coyote hole1851

1851 Sacramento (Calif.) Transcript 1 May He noticed one coyote hole where the miners had sunk the shaft through a strata..of ashes.

1906 N.Y. Evening Post 12 Sept. 7 Drilling coyote holes is the name applied by railroad contractors to drilling blast holes in grade running cuts through hills.

Derivatives

coyˈoting n. (see quot.)

ΚΠ

1867 J. A. Phillips Mining & Metall. Gold & Silver 164 This method of mining..is called coyoting, from the supposed resemblance of openings so made to the burrows of the coyote.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 124 Coyoting, mining in irregular openings or burrows.

Draft additions October 2007

U.S. slang. A person hired to assist people in illegally crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.

ΚΠ

1923 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 May 1/8 The characters of the ‘coyotes’ at the border are the lowest and ‘the murder of a fellow man means nothing to them’.

1943 Econ. Geogr. 19 359/2 The facilitators of illegal entrance, the smugglers or ‘coyotes’, the contractors or ‘engachistas’ who provided peons with jobs over the border.

1972 Los Angeles Times 17 Sept. (West Mag. section) 19/3 The coyote took us by way of Tecate in a station wagon... He let us out on the highway and we waited there..to lose the border patrol.

1980 J. Morrison & C. F. Zabusky Amer. Mosaic (1982) iii. 347 The Coyote rounded up me and five other guys, and then he got in contact with a guide to take us across the border.

2002 Nation (N.Y.) 8 Apr. 7/1 I made my first trip to the States at 13, a solo journey that included a few months of indentured servitude to a ‘coyote’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	coyote
释义	coyoten. Brit. /kɔɪˈəʊti/, /kʌɪˈəʊti/, U.S. /ˈkaɪoʊt/, /kaɪˈoʊdi/ Forms: Also cayeute, cayote, kiota. Etymology: < Mexican Spanish coyote, < coyotl, the name in a Central American Indian language of Mexico. 1. Zoology. The name, in Mexico and now in the United States, of the prairie- or barking-wolf ( Canis latrans) of the Pacific slope of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis latrans (coyote) prairie wolf1804 coyote1824 barking wolf1826 Mearns coyote1917 a1628 F. Hernandez Nova Plant., etc. Mex. (1651) 4. 1793 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 3) I. 257 Coyotl seu vulpes Indica.] 1824 W. Bullock Six Months' Residence Mexico 119 Saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf. 1824 W. Bullock Six Months' Residence Mexico 261 Mexico produces an animal which seems to connect the wolf, fox, and dog: it is called the cocyotie. 1824 W. Bullock Six Months' Residence Mexico 311 Cages in which lions, tigers, wolves, cayatoo, and wild cats were confined. 1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems (Boston) 14 The little gray collotes [sic] or prairie wolves, who are as rapacious and as noisy as their bigger brethren. 1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. vi. 51 The cayeute,..or medicine-wolf of the Indians. a1848 G. F. A. Ruxton Life in Far West (1849) 250 One may safely wager to see a dozen cayeutes or prairie wolves loping round. 1849 E. Bryant What I saw in California (ed. 5) xix. 219 A species of jackal called here the coyote, frequently approached within a few rods of us. 1850 B. Taylor Eldorado (1862) viii. 77 We saw the coyotes..prowling along the margin of the slough. 1850 W. R. Ryan Personal Adventures Calif. I. 250 Our horses..were set free by the cayotes—a species of animal something between a fox and a dog. 1860 Oregon Argus 24 Nov. You may guess there was but little meat on it when the kiotas left it. 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 213 Several coyotés and a skunk. 1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xxii Wildest of all beasts is the wolf, and wildest of all wolves is the coyote. 1884 W. Shepherd Prairie Experiences 42 The cayote will sneak in, and have his pickings on the offal. in extended use.1872 S. Powers Afoot & Alone 277 Many slouching fellows..are really squatters or ‘coyotes’.1890 Chicago Advance 20 Nov. Many ‘coyotes,’ as the Mexicans call the half breed population.1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xvi. 266 She's married to Benton Sharp, a coyote and a murderer.1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 243 I'll not be such a coyote any more.1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xii. 128 Lookit my hat..! Some coyote shot at me from up on Pine Mountain an' plumb ruined it!1948 New Mexico Q. Rev. Summer 198 Often coyote is used as a synonym for native, and is applied to Indians and mestizos (mixed bloods), as readily as to plants. 2. transferred. A horse of the colour of a coyote. ΚΠ 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy ii. 14 It was my good fortune to get a good mount of horses..three sorrels, two grays, two coyotes, a black, a brown, and a grulla. Compounds C1. General attributive. coyote-skin n. ΚΠ 1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada x. 219 Floor of pine, and Coyote-skin rug. coyote-wolf n. ΚΠ 1850 L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah i. 13 We were serenaded by the Coyote wolf. 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 382 At nightfall the coyoté-wolves..left their hiding places. C2. coyote diggings n. small shafts sunk by miners in California, compared to the holes of the coyote. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft > like coyote holes coyote diggings1850 coyote hole1851 1850 San Francisco Picayune 31 Aug. 3/1 There are Coyoto Diggings..from which, at the depth of from 17 to 25 feet, $23,000 have been taken out in two days. 1857 J. D. Borthwick Three Years in Calif. 138 The coyote diggings require to be very rich to pay. 1948 New Mexico Q. Rev. Summer 199 In mining lingo of early California, derived from the Mexicans, ‘coyote holes’ or ‘coyote diggings’ were small drift tunnels. coyote getter n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > trap for other animals wolf pen1647 otter trap1659 marten trap1743 bear trap1771 sable-trap1784 coyote getter1961 1961 New Scientist 13 Apr. 17/1 What the Americans bluntly call ‘coyote getters’. These small, mushroom-like appliances, fixed to a metal stake in the ground, are capable of firing a small-calibre cartridge loaded with sodium cyanide. coyote hole n. = coyote diggings n. (see also quot. 1906). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > shaft > like coyote holes coyote diggings1850 coyote hole1851 1851 Sacramento (Calif.) Transcript 1 May He noticed one coyote hole where the miners had sunk the shaft through a strata..of ashes. 1906 N.Y. Evening Post 12 Sept. 7 Drilling coyote holes is the name applied by railroad contractors to drilling blast holes in grade running cuts through hills. Derivatives coyˈoting n. (see quot.) ΚΠ 1867 J. A. Phillips Mining & Metall. Gold & Silver 164 This method of mining..is called coyoting, from the supposed resemblance of openings so made to the burrows of the coyote. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 124 Coyoting, mining in irregular openings or burrows. Draft additions October 2007 U.S. slang. A person hired to assist people in illegally crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. ΚΠ 1923 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 May 1/8 The characters of the ‘coyotes’ at the border are the lowest and ‘the murder of a fellow man means nothing to them’. 1943 Econ. Geogr. 19 359/2 The facilitators of illegal entrance, the smugglers or ‘coyotes’, the contractors or ‘engachistas’ who provided peons with jobs over the border. 1972 Los Angeles Times 17 Sept. (West Mag. section) 19/3 The coyote took us by way of Tecate in a station wagon... He let us out on the highway and we waited there..to lose the border patrol. 1980 J. Morrison & C. F. Zabusky Amer. Mosaic (1982) iii. 347 The Coyote rounded up me and five other guys, and then he got in contact with a guide to take us across the border. 2002 Nation (N.Y.) 8 Apr. 7/1 I made my first trip to the States at 13, a solo journey that included a few months of indentured servitude to a ‘coyote’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1824
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