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单词 ozark
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Ozarkadj.n.

Brit. /ˈəʊzɑːk/, U.S. /ˈoʊˌzɑrk/
Forms: 1800s Osark, 1800s– Ozark.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French aux Arks.
Etymology: < French aux Arks (also, after arc arc n., aux Arcs), shortened < aux Arkansas ‘at the (place of the) Quapaw Indians’ (also as the name of an 18th-cent. fort) < aux at the (plural) + Arkansas Quapaw Indians (compare Arkansas n.). In senses A. 2 and A. 3 probably directly < the name of the Ozark mountains or region, a heavily forested highland plateau and mountains, lying between the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers and within the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Illinois (compare French les Montagnes aux Arks ‘the mountains at the place of the Quapaw Indians’).
A. adj.
1. Of or relating to the Quapaw people or their language; = Quapaw adj. Now historical.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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