| 释义 |
Kickapoo U.S.|ˈkɪkəpuː|
[Amer. Indian.]
a. (A member of) a North American Indian people of the Algonquian family, now resident in reservations in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mexico.
b. The language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1722D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 50 Nations to the West of this Lake, besides the beforemention'd, are Part of the Outogamis, Mascoutens, and Kikpouz. 1835C. F. Hoffman Winter in West I. 276 The Indians that frequent the neighbourhood of Chicago..are chiefly Pottawattamies and Ottawas, with a few Chippewas.., and a straggling Kickapoo. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. 72 The languages of..the Great Lakes region (Ojibwa,..Kickapoo,..and so on). 1960B. Keaton Wonderful World of Slapstick (1967) 19 He had a Kickapoo squaw on one side of him, a Kickapoo brave on the other. |