单词 | wigwam |
释义 | wigwamn. 1. Any of several types of dwelling used by certain eastern North American Indian peoples consisting of a framework of wooden poles, typically with a domed or conical roof and covered with bark, hides, or reed mats. Hence: a similar structure used by other groups or societies. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > tent > [noun] > North American Indian Indian house1622 wigwam1624 tepee1743 lodge1805 1624 C. Levett Voy. New Eng. i. 4 We built us our Wigwam, or house, in one houres space. a1647 F. Gorges Amer. painted to Life: Hist. Spaniards (1659) 38 This Sachem passing from one Wigwam to another, was shot through the arm with an arrow. 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iii. iii. 11 When they would erect a Wigwang,..they stick Saplins into the ground. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 37 They hawl'd their Canoes up, and built four Wigg-whams. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. viii. 105 Certain miserable wigwams, compiled of earth, loose stones, and turf. View more context for this quotation 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha Introd. 3 The curling smoke of wigwams. 1894 All Year Round 17 Mar. 248/1 There was Aladdin in his Chinese wig-wam, assiduously rubbing his wonderful lamp. 1938 J. M. Gibbon Canad. Mosaic iv. 96 I found that the people had already lodged themselves in temporary wigwams..by setting up a number of poles in a conical form, tied together with boughs of trees. 1982 Plains Anthropologist 27 310/1 Wigwams of the Siberian reindeer herders and hunters were covered with strips of bark in summertime. 2011 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 22 Jan. h3 My wigwam is carpeted in fresh-cut spruce boughs. 2. U.S. Politics. (The name of) a large, sometimes temporary structure or building used for political gatherings. Now historical. ΚΠ 1787 Daily Advertiser (N.Y.) 30 Apr. 2/4 The Members of St. Tammany's Society in the City of New-York are requested to meet at their Wigwam... By order of the Sachem. 1860 N.Y. Herald 24 May 7/4 The expediency of procuring a convenient and central location on which to erect a wig wam wherein republican mass meetings can be held. 1888 Bloomfield (Indiana) Democrat 15 June Reuben Lawhorn made his voice heard in the convention last Saturday... When the nays was called for, Reuben made the wigwam tremble when he said, No, he meant it. 1920 Editor & Publisher 11 Dec. 24/1 Griggs hit Newark and found Wilson was to speak in a big beer garden, transformed for the occasion into a political wigwam. 2011 M. S. Green Lincoln & Election 1860 iii. 51 A week after the Illinois convention, Republicans came to another Wigwam. 3. humorous. Any house, dwelling, or building. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > [noun] earneOE wickc900 bottleeOE innOE boldOE wonningc1000 wanea1225 wonea1250 bidea1300 dwelling1340 habitaculec1374 habitaclec1384 habitationc1384 mansionc1385 placea1387 manantie?a1400 dungeonc1460 longhousec1460 folda1500 residencea1522 abode1549 bield1570 lodgement1598 bidinga1600 sit-house1743 location1795 wigwam1817 address1855 yard1865 res1882 nivas1914 multifamily1952 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. vii. 200 They..bore me..towards Mrs. MacAlpine's. On arrival before her hospitable wigwam I found [etc.]. 1884 J. O. Halliwell Hand-list Drawings Shaks. (title page) Preserved at Hollingbury Copse, near Brighton. That quaint wigwam on the Sussex Downs. 2015 @jasminkellie 7 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Today my dream came true.. I got a lift back to my wigwam in Wales in a police car in a converse tracksuit. 4. Originally and chiefly British. A conical framework of sticks or poles used to support climbing plants. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > trellis or framework trailc1460 trellis1513 palisado1604 counter-espalier1658 palisade1658 pole hedge1658 treillage1698 trellis-work1712 espalier1736 trellis-frame1766 trainer1836 balloon1881 trellising1913 palm-stand1926 wigwam1961 1961 Times 15 Apr. 11/3 We saw some very interesting Chinese cucumbers which were grown outside up a wigwam of pea sticks. 1978 A. J. Huxley Illustr. Hist. Gardening v. 150/2 We continue to grow beans and the like..on wigwams formed of bamboo canes. 2000 Church Times 12 May 28/4 A whole day wiring the kitchen garden against rabbits, sowing seeds, making a wigwam for the runner beans, hoeing up the first potatoes. 2016 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 4 May (Final ed.) (News section) d3 Growing beautiful sunflowers or making a sweet pea wigwam are a couple of nifty ideas. Phrases Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. a wigwam for a goose's bridle: a nonsense term, now typically used evasively in response to an unwanted or annoying question. ΚΠ 1836 United Service Jrnl. Mar. 341 I ordered him to make me a double-breasted wig with sleeves, and a wigwam for a goose's bridle to match. 1916 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 5 Aug. 6/4 A prickly-pear selection in that quarter would be about as handsome an asset to a returned soldier as a ‘wig-wam for a goose's bridle.’ 1938 in Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) Used by W.H. Orsman (b. Nelson, 1863), usu. as wigwam for a goose's bridle, as a reply to an inquisitive child. 1945 M. Raymond Smiley iv. 41 ‘Where you goin'?’.. ‘To git a wigwam for a goose's bridle!’ yelled Smiley insolently, recalling one of the sayings of Granny McKinley, the oldest inhabitant. 1982 J. Frame To Island (1984) 80 Those answers were as meaningless as the teasing answer people gave when you asked them what they were making: ‘A wigwam for a goose's bridle’. 2013 Daily Examiner (Grafton, New S. Wales) (Nexis) 20 Apr. 21 Dad's frequent response to our endless barrage of questions about what he was doing: ‘I'm off to fetch a wig-wam for a goose's bridle’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). wigwamv. North American. Somewhat rare. intransitive. To reside in a wigwam. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > camp or encamp [verb (intransitive)] > in wigwams wigwam1846 1846 N.Y. Evening Post 2/2 You recollect old Tituba, the shrivelled squaw, Who wigwamed gloomily by the wood's edge. 1906 Harper's Mag. Apr. 770 Having seen..that the fur traders were really wigwamming on the bay. 1909 A. C. Laut Canada: Empire of North v. 80 Le Jeune tramped up the river bank..where he found the Indians wigwamming, and by the bribe of free food obtained Pierre. 2002 ACT: Advertising/Communication Times July 3/2 I checked up on his Abnaki recipe, and discovered that it came from a North American Indian tribe wigwaming mostly in Maine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1624v.1846 |
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