a crude shelter made of brushwood, mats, or grass and having an oval frame, esp of a kind used by nomadic Native Americans now in Oklahoma and neighbouring states of the US
Word origin
C19: from Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo wikiyap; compare wigwam
wickiup in American English
(ˈwɪkiˌʌp)
noun
1. (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.)
a Native American hut made of brushwood or covered with mats
2. Western U.S.
any rude hut
Also: wickyup, wikiup
Word origin
[1850–55, Amer.; earlier and still dialectally applied to the bark- or mat-covered wigwams of theNative Americans of the Upper Great Lakes ‹ Fox wi⋅kiya⋅pi house ‹ Proto-Algonquian *wi⋅kiwa⋅ɂmi; cf. wigwam]
Examples of 'wickiup' in a sentence
wickiup
She hesitated only a moment in the moonlight to calm herself, before slipping inside the wickiup, where he waited so eagerly.