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wickiup

or ɾ··ܱ, ɾ··ܱ

[ wik-ee-uhp ]

noun

  1. (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
  2. Western U.S. any rude hut.


wickiup

/ ˈɪɪˌʌ /

noun

  1. a crude shelter made of brushwood, mats, or grass and having an oval frame, esp of a kind used by nomadic Indians now in Oklahoma and neighbouring states of the US
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wickiup1

1850–55, Americanism; earlier and still dialectally applied to the bark- or mat-covered wigwams of the Upper Great Lakes Indians < Fox ɾ·쾱ⲹ·辱 house < Proto-Algonquian *ɾ·쾱ɲ·ʔ; wigwam
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wickiup1

C19: from Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo wikiyap; compare wigwam
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Then she tried to disguise the shelter by erecting a palm-frond wickiup on the roof.

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There you will see the rows of wickiups," said the Basket Woman, "with the doors all opening eastward to the sun.

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Laying aside his pipe, he spread his blankets in the wickiup, and then walked quietly toward the quaking aspen.

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One moment the Apaches were squatting among their lodges; and in the next moment people and goods and wickiups were gone; the place was bare.

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Her teeth and eyes gleamed in the faint light within the wickiup.

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