单词 | ozark |
释义 | Ozarkadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to the Quapaw people or their language; = Quapaw adj. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > Plains Indian > [adjective] > others Padouca1760 Quapaw1770 black-footed1772 Sarcee1790 Ozark1816 Comanche1819 Tonkawa1870 earth lodge1885 Skidi1891 1816 H. Ker Trav. Western Interior U.S. 40 We were visited by a few of the Osark tribe of Indians, who came to us in canoes... They are called by the name of a river they inhabit, on the west side of the Mississippi. 1820 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa 18 Feb. 223 About noon we landed at one of the Quapaw or Osark villages, but found only three houses constructed of bark, and those unoccupied. 1995 W. K. McNeil Ozark Country i. 6 There are many possible explanations as to why the changes wrought during this era made little impression on Ozark Indians, including a paucity of people and resources, difficulty of travel in the region, and a tenacious resistance to change. 2. Of, relating to, or designating things characteristic of or derived from the Ozark mountain region; = Ozarkian n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > specific states or regions > others Carolinian1705 Georgian1740 Missourian1761 Alaskian1788 Vermontese1798 Alaskan1807 Michigan1814 Russo-American1814 Illinoian1818 Mississippian1819 Middle Atlantic1826 New Mexican1834 Louisianian1835 Texian1835 Oregonian1850 Texan1852 Nebraskan1853 Tennessean1853 Ozark1856 Dakotan1874 Kansan1894 Ozarkian1906 Tex-Mex1949 Texican1982 1856 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1855: Agric. 308 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (34th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 12) VI The varieties referred to above are..the ‘Ozark’ seedlings. 1907 H. B. Wright Shepherd of Hills 11 When God looked upon th' work of his hands an' called hit good, he war sure a lookin' at this here Ozark country. 1949 ‘J. Nelson’ Backwoods Teacher 238 Now it was time to bring bittersweet and limbs of thornless Ozark holly,..[etc.]. 2000 Nature Conservancy July–Aug. 37/1 Its extraordinary variety of aquatic creatures, including the..Ozark Pigtoe mussel. 3. Of, relating to, or designating the non-indigenous population of the Ozark mountain region or the distinctive regional variety of English which they speak. ΚΠ 1927 Haldeman-Julius Q. Jan. 77/1 I dwelt among the Ozark hill-billies up near the Missouri line. 1959 C. Morrow Wilson Bodacious Ozarks xiii. 147 A great deal of the charm and effectiveness of Ozark speech stays in its spontaneous similes: hotter'n homade hell, cold as a froze up frog..or hot as a firecracker. 1982 Language 58 121 In dialects such as Ozark English, for functions as in standard English, but optionally. 1997 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 9 Feb. 1 What came out was Ozark English, that vivid, distinctive and often delightful vernacular that hillfolk made into a sort of music. B. n. = Quapaw n. 1. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [noun] Floridian1589 Chickasaw1674 Yamasee1699 Alabama1708 Natchez1708 Santee1709 Cherokee1721 Choctaw1722 Coushatta1722 Creek1725 Yuchi1738 Muskogee1751 Floridan1763 Muskogee1789 Mikasuki1791 Opelousa1805 Karankawa1806 Tunica1806 Melungeon1813 Alabamian1817 Ozark1819 Alabaman1829 1819 T. Nuttall Jrnl. 9 Jan. in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1905) XIII. v. 94 This evening we were visited by three young men, a boy, and a squaw of the Osarks, a band of the Quapaws or Arkansa Indians. 1821 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory vi. 81 The aborigines of this territory, now commonly called Arkansas or Quapaws and Osarks, do not..number more than about 200 warriors. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians ii. 180/2 Ozark, a term at one time applied to a local band of Quapaw, from their residence in the Ozark mountain region of Missouri and Arkansas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1816 |
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