单词 | malamute |
释义 | Malamuten. 1. A member of an Inupiaq people inhabiting the region of the Kotzebue Sound on the west coast of Alaska. ΚΠ 1868 F. Whymper Travel & Adventure in Territory of Alaska xiii. 143 The Malemutes and Kaveaks intermingle considerably, and have therefore been spoken of here as one people. 1892 J. Murdoch Ethnol. Results Point Barrow Exped. 193 These guns must have come from the ‘Nunatañmiun,’ who obtained them either from the Siberian traders or from the Russians at Norton Sound through the Malemiut. 1907 F. W. Hodge et al. Handbk. Amer. Indians North of Mexico I. 794/2 Malemiut. An Eskimo tribe occupying the coast of Norton sd., N. of Shaktolik and the neck of Kaviak penin., Alaska. 1967 H. N. Michael tr. L. A. Zagoskin Travels in Russian Amer. 1842–4 125 The Maleygmyut supply the people of the middle and lower Yukon with over a thousand deerskins. 1973 W. S. Avis in Occas. Papers Dept. Eng. Royal Mil. Coll. Canada (1978) No. 2. 150 A type of sled dog first bred by the Malamiut, an Eskimo people of Alaska. 2. Also malamute. More fully Alaskan Malamute, Malamute dog. A breed of dog of the spitz type, developed in Alaska from the distinctive, large sled dogs bred by the Malamute people; a dog of this breed, having a thick grey or black and white coat, pointed ears, and a plumed tail curling over its back. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Spitz > types of Eskimo dog1774 Eskimo1830 husky1871 elk-hound1878 Malamute1884 schipperke1887 Samoyed1889 skip1895 Eskimo husky1896 laika1905 keeshond1926 Akita1928 Siberian1928 Finnish Spitz1930 Siberian husky1930 1884 Leslie's Pop. Monthly 17 686/2 One of the advantages that a team of Mahlemuhte dogs may be credited with, is the small amount of food they require on the road. 1898 Klondike Nugget (Dawson, Yukon Territory) 20 July 3/2 After appointing a committee to keep stray Malamoots and donkeys off the diamond, the game was called. 1908 St. Nicholas Mar. 387/2 Few pure malamutes..are now employed in the mail service. 1922 G. C. F. Pringle Tillicums of Trail 84 I first picked on a big grey-muzzled malemute named Steal as a likely fellow to lead. 1948 Chicago Tribune 23 Feb. iv. 1/6 Along with the Eskimos will be a representation of the Malemute sled dogs that provide the only motive power available to Eskimos. 1952 M. K. Wilson tr. K. Z. Lorenz King Solomon's Ring x. 117 The purest wolf-dogs that exist are certain breeds of Arctic America, particularly the so-called malemuts, huskies etc. 1971 F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 569 The Malamute must give an impression of great strength and tremendous propelling power. 1986 Toronto Star 28 May d9/3 Alaskan Malamute pups, housetrained. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1868 |
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