Big Knifen.

Brit.

/ˈbɪɡ knʌɪf/, U.S.

/ˈbɪɡ ˈˌnaɪf/

Forms: also with lower-case initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Mohawk lexical item. Etymons: big adj., knife n.

Etymology: < big adj. + knife n., after Mohawk a’share’koówa, a name given to Francis Howard (c1643–95) colonial governor of Virginia, at a conference with the Iroquois at Albany on 13 July 1684; the Mohawk name, lit. ‘big knife’, arose from reinterpretation of the surname Howard as showing Dutch houwer cutlass (see A. Woodward in Indian Notes 5 (1928) 64–79). Compare long knife n.The term was subsequently translated into various other North American Indian languages, as well as English, and has frequently been reinterpreted as referring to bowie knives or cavalry sabres (as being taken to be characteristic of Americans of European descent).

In North American Indian usage: a settler or soldier of European origin or descent; spec. (now historical) a Virginian or American. Later also more generally: a white person. Cf. long knife n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers

pilgrim1630

originals1703

old settler1744

Big Knife1750

out-settler1755

provincial1756

Boer1776

freeman1791

Pilgrim Fathers1799

back-settler1809

undertaker1819

oecist1846

Argonaut1848

Canterbury pilgrim1850

poblador1850

shagroon1851

forty-niner1853

planter1858

inside squatter1881

local white1888

Minyan1928

1750 C. Gist Jrnls. 36 Upon his understanding I came from Virginia, he called me the Big Knife.

1791 J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 169 He told me that at the commencement of the war, the Big Knives (meaning the Americans), had advised him to turn his heart from the English, and promised to supply all his wants.

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. i. 6 It is farther to the town of the Big-knives.

1834 F. X. Gandon in T. E. Wing Hist. Monroe County, Michigan (1890) 66/1 They hated me heartily, and called me a dog and a ‘Big Knife’, etc., as I had light colored hair.

1902 C. A. Eastman Indian Boyhood xii. 280 When I was told that the Big Knives had created a ‘fire-boat-walks-on-mountains’ (a locomotive) it was too much to believe.

1990 News from Indian Country (Electronic ed.) Jan. 9 We don't like it when the big knives say that we live off his tax dollars and that we are drunk and lazy.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	big knife
释义	Big Knifen. Brit. /ˈbɪɡ knʌɪf/, U.S. /ˈbɪɡ ˈˌnaɪf/ Forms: also with lower-case initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Mohawk lexical item. Etymons: big adj., knife n. Etymology: < big adj. + knife n., after Mohawk a’share’koówa, a name given to Francis Howard (c1643–95) colonial governor of Virginia, at a conference with the Iroquois at Albany on 13 July 1684; the Mohawk name, lit. ‘big knife’, arose from reinterpretation of the surname Howard as showing Dutch houwer cutlass (see A. Woodward in Indian Notes 5 (1928) 64–79). Compare long knife n.The term was subsequently translated into various other North American Indian languages, as well as English, and has frequently been reinterpreted as referring to bowie knives or cavalry sabres (as being taken to be characteristic of Americans of European descent). In North American Indian usage: a settler or soldier of European origin or descent; spec. (now historical) a Virginian or American. Later also more generally: a white person. Cf. long knife n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers pilgrim1630 originals1703 old settler1744 Big Knife1750 out-settler1755 provincial1756 Boer1776 freeman1791 Pilgrim Fathers1799 back-settler1809 undertaker1819 oecist1846 Argonaut1848 Canterbury pilgrim1850 poblador1850 shagroon1851 forty-niner1853 planter1858 inside squatter1881 local white1888 Minyan1928 1750 C. Gist Jrnls. 36 Upon his understanding I came from Virginia, he called me the Big Knife. 1791 J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 169 He told me that at the commencement of the war, the Big Knives (meaning the Americans), had advised him to turn his heart from the English, and promised to supply all his wants. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. i. 6 It is farther to the town of the Big-knives. 1834 F. X. Gandon in T. E. Wing Hist. Monroe County, Michigan (1890) 66/1 They hated me heartily, and called me a dog and a ‘Big Knife’, etc., as I had light colored hair. 1902 C. A. Eastman Indian Boyhood xii. 280 When I was told that the Big Knives had created a ‘fire-boat-walks-on-mountains’ (a locomotive) it was too much to believe. 1990 News from Indian Country (Electronic ed.) Jan. 9 We don't like it when the big knives say that we live off his tax dollars and that we are drunk and lazy. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1750
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