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wigwam, n.|ˈwɪgwɒm, -wæm|
Also 7 wigg-wamme, 8 wigwang, wigg-wham, whigwham, wigwaum, 9 weekwam.
[a. Ojibwa wigwaum, wigiwam, var. of Algonquin weekuwom, wikiwam (Delaware wiquoam) lit. their house (cf. neek my house, keek thy house, week his house).]
a. A lodge, cabin, tent, or hut of the North American Indian peoples of the region of the Great Lakes and eastward, formed of bark, matting, or hides stretched over a frame of poles converging at the top: corresponding to the tepee of other peoples.
1628C. Levett Voy. N. Eng. i. in Collect. Mass. Hist. Soc. Ser. iii. VIII. 166 We built us our wigwam, or house, in one hour's space. 1659Gorges America Painted to the Life 38 This Sachem passing from one Wigwam to another, was shot through the arm with an arrow. 1722Beverley Hist. Virginia (ed. 2) 148 When they would erect a Wig-wang,..they stick Saplins into the Ground. 1821Dwight Trav. I. 117 They called a house weekwam, pronounced by their successors wigwam. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. Introd. 5 The curling smoke of wigwams. 1865Lubbock Preh. Times xii. 421 The huts or wigwams are..of two kinds, one for summer, and the other for winter. 1893Conan Doyle Refugees xxix, The great plains where the wooden wigwam gave place to the hide tee-pee.
b. Extended to similar structures among primitive societies in other parts of the world.
1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 37 They hawl'd their Canoes up, and built four Wigg-whams. 1793W. Hodges Trav. India 66 The wigwams of the torpid, wretched, unsettled Pecherais on the frozen coast of Terra del Fuego. 1814Scott Wav. viii, A miserable wigwam, compiled of earth, loose stones, and turf. 1865Lubbock Preh. Times viii. 228 The wigwam of the recent Mandan consisted of an outer layer of earth supported on a wooden framework.
c. Humorously applied to a house or dwelling in general; in U.S. slang to a large building (formerly often a temporary structure) used for political gatherings.
1818Scott Rob Roy xxxiv, They..bore me..towards Mrs. MacAlpine's. On arrival before her hospitable wigwam I found [etc.]. 1884Halliwell-Phillipps Hand-list Drawings Shaks. title-p., Preserved at Hollingbury Copse, near Brighton. That quaint wigwam on the Sussex Downs.
d. A pyramidal frame-work of bamboo and similar poles used to support beans, sweet peas, etc.
1971H. Evans How to cheat at Gardening viii. 120 If you must have sticks, tie them in threes, wigwam fashion. Ibid. 121 (caption) Easiest way of arranging bean-poles—the wigwam. 1978A. Huxley Illustr. Hist. Gardening v. 150/2 We continue to grow beans and the like..on wigwams formed of bamboo canes.
Hence ˈwigwam v. intr. (nonce-wd.), to erect wigwams or huts.
1906Harper's Mag. Apr. 770 Having seen..that the fur traders were really wigwamming on the bay. |