单词 | wickiup |
释义 | wickiupn. Originally U.S. Originally: a bark-covered lodge with a pitched roof made by the Meskwaki, Sauk, Kickapoo, and other Midwestern North American Indian peoples. In later use also: a dwelling used by certain North American Indian peoples of the west and south-west consisting of a dome-shaped frame covered with brushwood. Hence: any small hut or shanty. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] hulka1000 boothc1200 hull?c1225 lodge1290 hottea1325 holetc1380 tavern1382 scalea1400 schura1400 tugury1412 donjon?a1439 cabinc1440 coshc1490 cabinet1579 bully1598 crib1600 shed1600 hut1637 hovela1640 boorachc1660 barrack1686 bothy1750 corf1770 rancho1819 shanty1820 kraal1832 shelty1834 shackle1835 mia-mia1837 wickiup1838 caboose1839 chantier1849 hangar1852 caban1866 shebang1867 humpy1873 shack1878 hale1885 bach1927 jhuggi1927 favela1961 hokkie1973 1838 Iowa Territorial Gaz. & Burlington Advertiser 15 Dec. 1/1 His wickiup, that stood hard by Iowa's pearly stream, Endear'd by childhood's simple joy And youth's fond lingering dream. 1857 Jrnl. Discourses (1858) V. 80 After feeding to our guide some bread and water..we asked which was the way to Jacob's ‘Wickyup’. 1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada xiii. 273 An Indian ranchero where several willow wickyups were built upon the bank of a cold brook. 1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey vii. 108 A city of tents, pine-huts, and rude brush wakiups. 1876 Sun (N.Y.) 10 May 2/6 Come up and see me at my wickiup in Montana. 1930 E. Ferber Cimarron i. 11 He was raised in a tepee; a wickiup had been his bedroom, a blanket his robe. 1937 Des Moines (Iowa) Sunday Reg 6 June §7 7/1 Although she must be in the late eighties, she has never lived in anything except a wickiup and is the last of her tribe to cling to the hut, winter and summer. 1959 E. Tunis Indians 110/1 In winter the Diggers put their wickiups over pits for additional warmth, just as the Basketmakers did. 1994 S. Matheson Flying Frontiers 50 When the men crawled out of their wickiup, they almost smacked head-on into two moose. 2017 Cleburne (Texas) Times-Rev. (Nexis) 15 Apr. There will be a program to demonstrate how the wickiup is put up and other demonstrations of Native American life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1838 |
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