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Micmac, n. and a.|ˈmɪkmæk|
[Native name, lit. ‘allies’.]
A. n.
a. An Indian people of the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland in Canada; a member of this people.
b. The Algonquian language of this people.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating the Micmacs or their language.
1830W. S. Moorsom Lett. from Nova Scotia 110 The tribe to which the Indians of Nova Scotia belong is called the Micmac. Ibid. 112, I am not aware that any one Indian claims authority over the whole Micmac tribe. 1877L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. vi. 174 They affiliate more closely with the Micmacs than with the New England Indians south of the Kennebeck. 1891[see Indian n. 2 b]. 1911A. L. Pringle Home of Evangeline iv. 139 He taught her the Micmac, and proud she was in his absence to be catechist to the Indians. 1933[see Cree n. and a.]. 1964P. K. Bock in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 217 A recurrent situation on the Micmac Indian Reserve studied by the author in 1961 will be used to illustrate how the method of structural description..may be applied. 1969Canad. Jrnl. Ling. XV. 78 Micmac morphophonemics. 1969Observer (Colour Suppl.) 18 May 25/1 The French..offered the Micmac Indians a bounty for every scalp they took from the Beothuk of Newfoundland. 1972G. V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle vi. 35, I get five of these Micmacs come in, real Indians, for a change. |