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Puyallup

[ pyoo-al-uhp ]

noun

plural Puyallups, (especially collectively) Puyallup
  1. Also called ܲⲹə貹š [spoo-, yahl, -, uh, -pahbsh]. a member of a Lushootseed-speaking North American Indian tribe living in the Puget Sound area of Washington State.
  2. a city in western Washington State, southeast of Tacoma.


adjective

  1. of or relating to the Puyallup.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Puyallup1

First recorded in 1870–75 (referring to the Puyallup River); from a dialect of Southern Lushootseed twulshootseed (also ٳʷǝšܳ ), literally “generous and welcoming behavior to all who enter our lands”
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Harvard-Westlake 77, Washington Puyallup 45: Joe Sterling scored 20 points and Nikolas Khamenia 17 for the 15-1 Wolverines.

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“How people interpret their emotions and rationalize the threat of climate change might be the determining factor in whether it leads to action or inaction,” Matthew Ballew, an environmental psychologist at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington, wrote to me in an email.

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WSF has three of these massive vessels, also including the Puyallup, which are the fleet’s largest and together produce 26% of the ferry system’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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The statement did not identify the 30-year-old Puyallup man who died after being extricated from his car and taken to a hospital.

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King County prosecutors have charged a Puyallup man in a hit-and-run that killed an 81-year-old pedestrian late last month in White Center.

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