单词 | tyee |
释义 | tyeen. 1. A chief; a person of distinction. North American slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one who is distinguished or notable palma1525 somebodya1566 Dona1635 great gun1657 lion1715 bahadur1776 tyee1792 lioness1808 top-sawyer1826 roi soleil1880 1792 in E. Healey Hist. Alert Bay (1958) 15 The Ty-ee, or chief, of the village paid us an early visit. 1866 J. K. Lord Naturalist in Brit. Columbia I. 161 I was presented to the chiefs as a Hyas tyee (great chief), one of ‘King George's’ men. 1877 Puget Sound (Washington) Argus 23 Nov. With the coming of the military among us came a big church ‘tyhee’, who told us that the soldiers were come to protect us. 1880 D. M. Gordon Mountain & Prairie 117 We were surprised to find, at the head of Stewart Lake, a well-stocked farm, owned and worked by the Indian ‘tyhee’. 1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1911 Chambers's Jrnl. July 439 Thither when a tyhee [i.e. a wealthy Chinese man] dies, wends a noisy procession. 1927 A. Philip Painted Cliff 14 J. B. Smith is the high muck-a-muck, the tyee of the mining business of British Columbia. 1963 Brit. Columbia Digest Oct. 54/2 A British officer..may have told the Chief that he was now the great Tyee of the country. The Indian took the words literally and elevated himself to top position. 1966 H. Marriott Cariboo Cowboy v. 54 The agricultural tyees in both Canada and the United States have taken a wise view. 2. The king-salmon or quinnat ( Oncorhynchus chouicha or quinnat). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > member of genus Oncorhyncus (chinook) red fish1763 spring salmon1776 gorbuscha1784 keta1824 quinnat1829 Chinook salmon1851 coho1869 king salmon1871 silver trout1873 kokanee1875 salmon1884 sockeye1888 chisel-mouth1889 pink salmon1899 spring1900 tyee1902 pink1905 blackmouth1906 chum1908 greenback cut-throat1989 1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 151 Chinook Salmon... Other names by which this fish is known are quinnat salmon,..tyee, tchaviche, and tschawytscha. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 373/1 The quinnat, chinook, or ty-hee (chief) commonly known as the Spring Salmon. 1909 Morning Leader 6 Feb. 4/4 He caught four and Mr. Bonnell two ‘Tyee’ salmon;..only three other ‘Tyees’ were taken. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1792 |
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