wampumn.

Brit.

/ˈwɒmpəm/, U.S.

/ˈwɑmpəm/

Forms: 1600s wampan, 1600s wompam, 1600s–1700s wampam, 1600s–1700s wampom, 1600s– wampum, 1700s wompom, 1700s wompum.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: wampumpeag n.

Etymology: Shortened < wampumpeag n. Compare peag n.Compare French wampum, †wampoum (mid 18th cent., probably < English).

a. With singular or plural agreement. Small cylindrical beads made from shells and strung together, used by some eastern North American Indian peoples for many purposes, including trade, ornament, and record-keeping, and (formerly) by European settlers as a currency. Also as a count noun: one of these beads (now rare).

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > beads

roanoke1615

wampumpeag1627

Indian money1634

wampum1636

peag1638

seawant1701

hiaqua1824

shell-money1851

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s)

graina1350

juniper-beads1486

beadc1500

adder-stone1587

bead-stone1677

adder-bead1694

wampumpeag1705

wampum1753

strand1825

society > communication > record > pictorial, etc., records > [noun] > beads used by North American Indians

wampum1915

1636 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. 193 The trade of beaver and wampom was to be farmed, and all others restrained from trading.

1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. (new ed.) Suppl. 118 Sending Messengers a second time, who offered much Wampam (Indians Money) and Beaver.

1753 S. Hopkins Hist. Mem. Housatunnuk Indians 4 A Wompum is a small Cylinder of about one third of an Inch long... A Number of these strung upon small Threads, and knit together in the Form of a Belt, are call'd a Belt of Wompum.

1761 Brit. Mag. 2 480 This declaration they confirmed with belts of wampum.

1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha ix. 120 The shafts of Hiawatha Harmless hit the shirt of wampum.

1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxvii. 183 The farmers and seamen of Massachusetts nourished its college with coin and strings of wampum, and in every village built the free school.

1915 F. M. Ford Good Soldier i. i. 9 These title deeds are of wampum, the grant of an Indian chief to the first Dowell.

1954 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 32 162 At first, only the chiefs could wear wampum.

1997 E. Shenkier & T. Meredith in A. Wellington et al. Canad. Issues in Environmental Ethics iii. 71/1 A wampum is a cylindrical bead of either white or purple colour, derived from the hard shell of a clam.

2003 G. Roza Iroquois of N.Y. iii. 31 Wampum were used for a variety of reasons. They were used in special ceremonies.

2016 Industr. Goods Monitor Worldwide (Nexis) 7 Nov. Barter also took the form of traditional native currencies such as furs and wampum which were essential for frontier trading with the indigenous population.

b. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) Money.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > [noun]

silverc825

feec870

pennieseOE

wortheOE

mintOE

scata1122

spense?c1225

spendinga1290

sumc1300

gooda1325

moneya1325

cattlec1330

muckc1330

reasona1382

pecunyc1400

gilt1497

argentc1500

gelta1529

Mammon1539

ale silver1541

scruff1559

the sinews of war1560

sterling1565

lour1567

will-do-all1583

shell1591

trasha1592

quinyie1596

brass1597

pecuniary1604

dust1607

nomisma1614

countera1616

cross and pilea1625

gingerbreada1625

rhinoa1628

cash1646

grig1657

spanker1663

cole1673

goree1699

mopus1699

quid1699

ribbin1699

bustle1763

necessary1772

stuff1775

needfula1777

iron1785

(the) Spanish1788

pecuniar1793

kelter1807

dibs1812

steven1812

pewter1814

brad1819

pogue1819

rent1823

stumpy1828

posh1830

L. S. D.1835

rivetc1835

tin1836

mint sauce1839

nobbins1846

ochre1846

dingbat1848

dough1848

cheese1850

California1851

mali1851

ducat1853

pay dirt1853

boodle?1856

dinero1856

scad1856

the shiny1856

spondulicks1857

rust1858

soap1860

sugar1862

coin1874

filthy1876

wampum1876

ooftish1877

shekel1883

oil1885

oof1885

mon1888

Jack1890

sploshc1890

bees and honey1892

spending-brass1896

stiff1897

mazuma1900

mazoom1901

cabbage1903

lettuce1903

Oscar Asche1905

jingle1906

doubloons1908

kale1912

scratch1914

green1917

oscar1917

snow1925

poke1926

oodle1930

potatos1931

bread1935

moolah1936

acker1939

moo1941

lolly1943

loot1943

poppy1943

mazoola1944

dosh1953

bickies1966

lovely jubbly1990

scrilla1994

1876 R. H. Phelps Newgate of Connecticut: Origin & Early Hist. 102 The wampum of the red-man was considered as rather below par—perhaps bearing a relation to our present paper wampum, when estimated by the standard of gold and silver.

1897 Outing July 367/2 I laid some of their own miserable, smelly, garlicky, paper-wampum upon their official..desk, saying, as I did this: ‘You can keep the change.’

1938 Amer. Home June 7/1 (advt.) The Keeper of the Wampum in our family practically purrs when he gets our electric bills.

2002 Financial Times 28 Sept. (Travel section) It is fast becoming a brand worth your wampum.

2014 Washington Post Blogs (Nexis) 1 Dec. You're going to need some serious wampum—like $300,000 worth.

†2. A wampum snake (wampum snake n. at Compounds 2). Obsolete. rare.striped wampum: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > genus or member of genus Coluber

corn-snake1676

blacksnake1694

wampum snake1737

coluber1754

pilot snake1793

wampum1819

1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. II. xiv. 38 There are rattle-snakes, black snakes, wampums, and other species.

1853 E. D. Cope Let. 27 Sept. in Amer. Geologist 26 76 I caught a large water snake or water wampum as they are called here.

Phrases

† wampum and warpaint n. Australian colloquial Obsolete rare evening dress, finery, or other means of beautifying oneself.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > evening

evening dress1782

evening wear1800

wampum and warpaint1876

formal1941

1876 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xv, in Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 21 Oct. 662/4 He arrayed himself in the wampum and warpaint proper for such engagements as manufactured by Mr. Poole, of Saville Row.

1898 Evening News (Sydney) 22 Jan. (Suppl.) 3/1 The lady desirous of appearing to the full glory of wampum and warpaint will have to sit motionless for a full minute.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as wampum bead, wampum collar, wampum shell, etc.

ΚΠ

1768 C. Beatty Jrnl. Two Months' Tour 32 Mr. Gibson..recommended us to one of the chiefs by a letter and a string of wampum beads.

1845 Southern & Western Mag. & Rev. Oct. 256 The wampum girdle which belted his waist.

1932 Collier's 9 Jan. 40/1 Wampum shells circulated readily among the North American Indians.

1962 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 75 290 The daughter or niece spends hours visiting the corpse and receives in one instance a wampum bracelet in token of paternity.

2004 C. J. Jaenen in P. L. Fleming et al. Hist. of Bk. in Canada I. i. 15 They presented her with a wampum collar recording their fidelity.

C2.

wampum belt n. a broad, patterned strip of wampum beads strung together to record a message, event, treaty, etc., and used in rituals or as a (diplomatic) gift; = wampum record n.; cf. belt n.¹ 11.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash > types of > made of specific material

tissuec1374

wampum belt1676

postilion-belt1773

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) > belt made of beads

wampum belt1676

belt of wampum1694

wampum record1881

1676 B. Tompson New-Englands Tears 12 All up in Wampum Belts, most richly drest.

1764 S. Foote Lyar i. ii. 13 He shall present you with the wampum belt, and a scalping knife.

1830 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 413/1 History has been written with quipo-threads, with feather pictures, with wampum-belts.

2017 Niagara (Canada) Advance (Nexis) 29 July a35 The wampum belt..was used by various Indigenous tribes to record political and diplomatic events and often read and discussed before new treaties were accepted.

wampum clam n. now rare the quahog or hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, the shell of which was used to make wampum (see sense 1a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae > shell of

wampum clam1786

Montagu's Venus1819

1778 E. M. da Costa Hist. Nat. Testaceorum Brit. 184/1 Mr. Pennant has also followed this Linnean error, by proposing the North-American clam or wampum shell as the same species with this [sc. Pectunculus crassus].]

1786 Catal. Portland Mus. (Skinner & Co.) 59 A Venus mercenaria, L. or wampum clam, of which kind of shell the beads in the [wampum] belt are made.

1884 G. B. Goode in Fisheries Exhib. Lit. V. 45 There are two important kinds of Clams—the Long Clam, or ‘Maninose’, Mya arenaria, and the Quahaug, or Round Clam, sometimes called the Wampum Clam, Venus mercenaria.

1994 E. B. Kavasch EarthMaker's Lodge v. 139 Original wampum was handmade from the core of conch and whelk shells, and especially from the quahog (or wampum) clam, found only in Atlantic coastal waters.

wampum record n. a broad, patterned strip of wampum beads strung together to record a message, event, treaty, etc., and used in rituals or as a (diplomatic) gift; = wampum belt n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) > belt made of beads

wampum belt1676

belt of wampum1694

wampum record1881

1881 H. Hale Hiawatha & Iroquois Confederation 17 The Onondagas had brought with them most of their wampum records.

1895 W. J. Hoffman Beginnings of Writing 24 Wampum records are purely mnemonic.

2007 Stud. Amer. Indian Lit. 19 80 Wampum records are maintained by regularly revisiting and re-‘reading’ them through community memory and performance.

wampum snake n. now historical any of several North American colubrid snakes having colourful bands or stripes; esp. the mud snake Farancia abacura; cf. sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > genus or member of genus Coluber

corn-snake1676

blacksnake1694

wampum snake1737

coluber1754

pilot snake1793

wampum1819

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > farancia abacura (hoop-snake)

horn-snake1694

wampum snake1737

horned snake1775

hoop-snake1784

1737 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. viii. Pl. 58 (heading) The Wampum Snake...receives its name from the Resemblance it has to Indian Money called Wampum,..made of Shells cut into regular Pieces, and strung with a Mixture of Blue and White.

1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 463 Wampum Snake. Coluber Fasciatus.

1893 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 12 Jan. 1/2 Druggist W. H. Mickel..has the skin of a wampum snake six feet in length.

1950 Herpetologica 6 170/2 Wampum snake. F[arancia] abacura.

2015 A. A. Bauer in E. C. Nelson & D. J. Elliott Curious Mister Catesby xvii. 239 (caption) ‘The Wampum Snake’ has been variously interpreted as a water snake (Nerodia sp.) or the eastern mudsnake (Farancia abacura).

Derivatives

ˈwampum-wise adv. †(a) (threaded) after the manner of wampum (obsolete rare); (b) U.S. colloquial as regards money; financially (cf. sense 1b) (rare).

ΚΠ

1790 Proc. Afr. Assoc. 36 The beads are worked wampum-wise.

1966 Miami (Okla.) News-Record 2 Sept. 5 (advt.) Wampum-wise, Trujuns are popularly priced to fit into any tight school budget.

2008 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News (Nexis) 29 Dec. We came to the unsettling realization that more is going out than coming in, wampum wise.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wampum
释义	wampumn. Brit. /ˈwɒmpəm/, U.S. /ˈwɑmpəm/ Forms: 1600s wampan, 1600s wompam, 1600s–1700s wampam, 1600s–1700s wampom, 1600s– wampum, 1700s wompom, 1700s wompum. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: wampumpeag n. Etymology: Shortened < wampumpeag n. Compare peag n.Compare French wampum, †wampoum (mid 18th cent., probably < English). 1. a. With singular or plural agreement. Small cylindrical beads made from shells and strung together, used by some eastern North American Indian peoples for many purposes, including trade, ornament, and record-keeping, and (formerly) by European settlers as a currency. Also as a count noun: one of these beads (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > beads roanoke1615 wampumpeag1627 Indian money1634 wampum1636 peag1638 seawant1701 hiaqua1824 shell-money1851 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) graina1350 juniper-beads1486 beadc1500 adder-stone1587 bead-stone1677 adder-bead1694 wampumpeag1705 wampum1753 strand1825 society > communication > record > pictorial, etc., records > [noun] > beads used by North American Indians wampum1915 1636 J. Winthrop Hist. New Eng. (1825) (modernized text) I. 193 The trade of beaver and wampom was to be farmed, and all others restrained from trading. 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. (new ed.) Suppl. 118 Sending Messengers a second time, who offered much Wampam (Indians Money) and Beaver. 1753 S. Hopkins Hist. Mem. Housatunnuk Indians 4 A Wompum is a small Cylinder of about one third of an Inch long... A Number of these strung upon small Threads, and knit together in the Form of a Belt, are call'd a Belt of Wompum. 1761 Brit. Mag. 2 480 This declaration they confirmed with belts of wampum. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha ix. 120 The shafts of Hiawatha Harmless hit the shirt of wampum. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxvii. 183 The farmers and seamen of Massachusetts nourished its college with coin and strings of wampum, and in every village built the free school. 1915 F. M. Ford Good Soldier i. i. 9 These title deeds are of wampum, the grant of an Indian chief to the first Dowell. 1954 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 32 162 At first, only the chiefs could wear wampum. 1997 E. Shenkier & T. Meredith in A. Wellington et al. Canad. Issues in Environmental Ethics iii. 71/1 A wampum is a cylindrical bead of either white or purple colour, derived from the hard shell of a clam. 2003 G. Roza Iroquois of N.Y. iii. 31 Wampum were used for a variety of reasons. They were used in special ceremonies. 2016 Industr. Goods Monitor Worldwide (Nexis) 7 Nov. Barter also took the form of traditional native currencies such as furs and wampum which were essential for frontier trading with the indigenous population. b. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) Money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [noun] silverc825 feec870 pennieseOE wortheOE mintOE scata1122 spense?c1225 spendinga1290 sumc1300 gooda1325 moneya1325 cattlec1330 muckc1330 reasona1382 pecunyc1400 gilt1497 argentc1500 gelta1529 Mammon1539 ale silver1541 scruff1559 the sinews of war1560 sterling1565 lour1567 will-do-all1583 shell1591 trasha1592 quinyie1596 brass1597 pecuniary1604 dust1607 nomisma1614 countera1616 cross and pilea1625 gingerbreada1625 rhinoa1628 cash1646 grig1657 spanker1663 cole1673 goree1699 mopus1699 quid1699 ribbin1699 bustle1763 necessary1772 stuff1775 needfula1777 iron1785 (the) Spanish1788 pecuniar1793 kelter1807 dibs1812 steven1812 pewter1814 brad1819 pogue1819 rent1823 stumpy1828 posh1830 L. S. D.1835 rivetc1835 tin1836 mint sauce1839 nobbins1846 ochre1846 dingbat1848 dough1848 cheese1850 California1851 mali1851 ducat1853 pay dirt1853 boodle?1856 dinero1856 scad1856 the shiny1856 spondulicks1857 rust1858 soap1860 sugar1862 coin1874 filthy1876 wampum1876 ooftish1877 shekel1883 oil1885 oof1885 mon1888 Jack1890 sploshc1890 bees and honey1892 spending-brass1896 stiff1897 mazuma1900 mazoom1901 cabbage1903 lettuce1903 Oscar Asche1905 jingle1906 doubloons1908 kale1912 scratch1914 green1917 oscar1917 snow1925 poke1926 oodle1930 potatos1931 bread1935 moolah1936 acker1939 moo1941 lolly1943 loot1943 poppy1943 mazoola1944 dosh1953 bickies1966 lovely jubbly1990 scrilla1994 1876 R. H. Phelps Newgate of Connecticut: Origin & Early Hist. 102 The wampum of the red-man was considered as rather below par—perhaps bearing a relation to our present paper wampum, when estimated by the standard of gold and silver. 1897 Outing July 367/2 I laid some of their own miserable, smelly, garlicky, paper-wampum upon their official..desk, saying, as I did this: ‘You can keep the change.’ 1938 Amer. Home June 7/1 (advt.) The Keeper of the Wampum in our family practically purrs when he gets our electric bills. 2002 Financial Times 28 Sept. (Travel section) It is fast becoming a brand worth your wampum. 2014 Washington Post Blogs (Nexis) 1 Dec. You're going to need some serious wampum—like $300,000 worth. †2. A wampum snake (wampum snake n. at Compounds 2). Obsolete. rare.striped wampum: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > genus or member of genus Coluber corn-snake1676 blacksnake1694 wampum snake1737 coluber1754 pilot snake1793 wampum1819 1819 D. B. Warden Statist., Polit. & Hist. Acct. U.S. II. xiv. 38 There are rattle-snakes, black snakes, wampums, and other species. 1853 E. D. Cope Let. 27 Sept. in Amer. Geologist 26 76 I caught a large water snake or water wampum as they are called here. Phrases † wampum and warpaint n. Australian colloquial Obsolete rare evening dress, finery, or other means of beautifying oneself. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > evening evening dress1782 evening wear1800 wampum and warpaint1876 formal1941 1876 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xv, in Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 21 Oct. 662/4 He arrayed himself in the wampum and warpaint proper for such engagements as manufactured by Mr. Poole, of Saville Row. 1898 Evening News (Sydney) 22 Jan. (Suppl.) 3/1 The lady desirous of appearing to the full glory of wampum and warpaint will have to sit motionless for a full minute. Compounds C1. General attributive, as wampum bead, wampum collar, wampum shell, etc. ΚΠ 1768 C. Beatty Jrnl. Two Months' Tour 32 Mr. Gibson..recommended us to one of the chiefs by a letter and a string of wampum beads. 1845 Southern & Western Mag. & Rev. Oct. 256 The wampum girdle which belted his waist. 1932 Collier's 9 Jan. 40/1 Wampum shells circulated readily among the North American Indians. 1962 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 75 290 The daughter or niece spends hours visiting the corpse and receives in one instance a wampum bracelet in token of paternity. 2004 C. J. Jaenen in P. L. Fleming et al. Hist. of Bk. in Canada I. i. 15 They presented her with a wampum collar recording their fidelity. C2. wampum belt n. a broad, patterned strip of wampum beads strung together to record a message, event, treaty, etc., and used in rituals or as a (diplomatic) gift; = wampum record n.; cf. belt n.¹ 11. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash > types of > made of specific material tissuec1374 wampum belt1676 postilion-belt1773 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) > belt made of beads wampum belt1676 belt of wampum1694 wampum record1881 1676 B. Tompson New-Englands Tears 12 All up in Wampum Belts, most richly drest. 1764 S. Foote Lyar i. ii. 13 He shall present you with the wampum belt, and a scalping knife. 1830 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 413/1 History has been written with quipo-threads, with feather pictures, with wampum-belts. 2017 Niagara (Canada) Advance (Nexis) 29 July a35 The wampum belt..was used by various Indigenous tribes to record political and diplomatic events and often read and discussed before new treaties were accepted. wampum clam n. now rare the quahog or hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria, the shell of which was used to make wampum (see sense 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae > shell of wampum clam1786 Montagu's Venus1819 1778 E. M. da Costa Hist. Nat. Testaceorum Brit. 184/1 Mr. Pennant has also followed this Linnean error, by proposing the North-American clam or wampum shell as the same species with this [sc. Pectunculus crassus].] 1786 Catal. Portland Mus. (Skinner & Co.) 59 A Venus mercenaria, L. or wampum clam, of which kind of shell the beads in the [wampum] belt are made. 1884 G. B. Goode in Fisheries Exhib. Lit. V. 45 There are two important kinds of Clams—the Long Clam, or ‘Maninose’, Mya arenaria, and the Quahaug, or Round Clam, sometimes called the Wampum Clam, Venus mercenaria. 1994 E. B. Kavasch EarthMaker's Lodge v. 139 Original wampum was handmade from the core of conch and whelk shells, and especially from the quahog (or wampum) clam, found only in Atlantic coastal waters. wampum record n. a broad, patterned strip of wampum beads strung together to record a message, event, treaty, etc., and used in rituals or as a (diplomatic) gift; = wampum belt n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) > belt made of beads wampum belt1676 belt of wampum1694 wampum record1881 1881 H. Hale Hiawatha & Iroquois Confederation 17 The Onondagas had brought with them most of their wampum records. 1895 W. J. Hoffman Beginnings of Writing 24 Wampum records are purely mnemonic. 2007 Stud. Amer. Indian Lit. 19 80 Wampum records are maintained by regularly revisiting and re-‘reading’ them through community memory and performance. wampum snake n. now historical any of several North American colubrid snakes having colourful bands or stripes; esp. the mud snake Farancia abacura; cf. sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > genus or member of genus Coluber corn-snake1676 blacksnake1694 wampum snake1737 coluber1754 pilot snake1793 wampum1819 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Colubridae > farancia abacura (hoop-snake) horn-snake1694 wampum snake1737 horned snake1775 hoop-snake1784 1737 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. viii. Pl. 58 (heading) The Wampum Snake...receives its name from the Resemblance it has to Indian Money called Wampum,..made of Shells cut into regular Pieces, and strung with a Mixture of Blue and White. 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 463 Wampum Snake. Coluber Fasciatus. 1893 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 12 Jan. 1/2 Druggist W. H. Mickel..has the skin of a wampum snake six feet in length. 1950 Herpetologica 6 170/2 Wampum snake. F[arancia] abacura. 2015 A. A. Bauer in E. C. Nelson & D. J. Elliott Curious Mister Catesby xvii. 239 (caption) ‘The Wampum Snake’ has been variously interpreted as a water snake (Nerodia sp.) or the eastern mudsnake (Farancia abacura). Derivatives ˈwampum-wise adv. †(a) (threaded) after the manner of wampum (obsolete rare); (b) U.S. colloquial as regards money; financially (cf. sense 1b) (rare). ΚΠ 1790 Proc. Afr. Assoc. 36 The beads are worked wampum-wise. 1966 Miami (Okla.) News-Record 2 Sept. 5 (advt.) Wampum-wise, Trujuns are popularly priced to fit into any tight school budget. 2008 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News (Nexis) 29 Dec. We came to the unsettling realization that more is going out than coming in, wampum wise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1636
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