单词 | siwash |
释义 | Siwashn. North American. 1. a. An Indian, spec. of the North Pacific Coast. Frequently attributive. (Now considered pejorative.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun] Slave1789 beaver1801 Carrier1801 Musqueam1808 Nootkian1811 Okanagan1814 Takulli1820 Dogrib1823 Nanaimo1827 Loucheux1828 Bella Coola1834 Nootkan1835 Chilkat1836 Nootka1846 Squamish1846 Siwash1847 Kwakiutl1848 Nitinaht1848 Sitkan1848 Sitka1853 Makah1855 Stick Indian1857 Songhees1860 Stoney1861 Mattole1864 Tlingit1865 Nisga'a1874 Hoochinoo1878 Nimpkish1885 Tsimshian1888 Gitksan1889 Nuxalk1910 Snohomish1910 Nuu-chah-nulth1983 Ditidaht1988 'Namgis1994 1847 J. Palmer Jrnl. Trav. Rocky Mts. 150 Si-wash Indians. a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle (1883) ii. 18 The three unsavory..mat-haired, truculent siwashes. 1868 All Year Round 10 Oct. 432/1 The foreman then said: ‘We find the siwash was worried by a dog.’ Note, Siwash, corrupted from the voyageurs' Sauvage, a savage, universally applied to Indians on the North Pacific Coast. 1869 Mainland Guardian (New Westminster, Brit. Columbia) 30 Oct. 3/2 We bought a large Hydah canoe for $50, and hired ten siwashes (nine Hydahs and one bog-will Indian), for $10 a month. 1870 Alaska Times (Sitka) 7 May 2/3 On last Monday afternoon war was declared between the Sitka Si-washes and the native Aleutians. 1897 Outing 30 541/1 As we neared the Narrows other Siwashes in other queer-looking canoes paddled out. 1904 E. Robins Magn. North 293 You soon learn it is the Siwash custom. 1949 Boston Globe 15 May (Fiction Mag.) 3/2 The Siwash showed him a poke of coarse gold. 1967 C. L. Evans Newel Post 6 He was looking portly in a heavy Siwash sweater, and unselfconsciously wearing the knitted hat to match. b. transferred. A name of opprobrium; occasionally jocular. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt thingOE cat?c1225 geggea1300 fox-whelpc1320 creaturea1325 whelp1338 scoutc1380 turnbroach14.. foumart1508 shit1508 get?a1513 strummel?a1513 scofting?1518 pismirea1535 clinchpoop1555 rag1566 huddle and twang1578 whipster1590 slop1599 shullocka1603 tailor1607 turnspit1607 fitchewa1616 bulchin1617 trundle-taila1626 tick1631 louse1633 fart1669 insect1684 mully-grub-gurgeon1746 grub-worm1752 rass1790 foutre1794 blister1806 snot1809 skin1825 scurf1851 scut1873 Siwash1882 stiff1882 bleeder1887 blighter1896 sugar1916 vuilgoed1924 klunk1942 fart sack1943 fart-arse1946 jerkwad1980 1882 Edmonton Bull. 3 June 4/3 Does this great chieftain think new settlers are a community of Siwashes or cringing dependants. a1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories viii. 135 Come down here, you siwash. 1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley xiii. 158 So-long, you Siwash! 1964 P. Berton Golden Trail 23 I wouldn't go across the river on that old Siwash's word. 2. Chinook Jargon, the lingua franca of the North Pacific Coast Indians. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > pidgins and creoles > [noun] > Chinook Chinook18.. Siwash1902 Wishram1907 1902 Skagway Daily Alaskan 23 Aug. 3/1 The governor was forced back upon his ability to talk siwash, hoping thereby to control the Indian vote. 1908 R. E. Beach Barrier 56 Address me in Siwash or in English unless we are alone. 1936 W. B. Mowery Paradise Trail 14 That's what Saghelia means in Siwash—the purty land..paradise. Compounds Siwash camp n. an open camp with no tent. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > type of ordu1673 chantier1823 douar1829 outcamp1844 log-camp1858 lumbering-camp1858 yayla1864 refugee camp1865 cow-camp1873 gypsyry1873 work camp1877 tent town1878 logging-camp1880 lumber-camp1882 town camp1885 base camp1887 line-camp1888 wanigan1890 isolation camp1891 tent village1899 sheep-camp1911 safari camp1912 jungle1914 transit camp1919 Siwash camp1922 health camp1925 tent city1934 fly camp1939 bivvy1961 1922 19th Cent. Feb. 267 At night they would build a ‘siwash’ camp, digging a big hole in the snow, lining it with green spruce boughs and building up a three-foot wall of green spruce trees for a windbreak on back and sides. 1962 M. E. Murie Two in Far North ii. x. 197 We had only about twelve miles to travel from our siwash camp to Tramway Bar. Siwash duck n. a scoter of the genus Melanitta. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Melanitta > melanitta nigra (scoter) scoter1673 diver1678 whilka1705 sea-duck1753 whitewing1829 sleigh-bell duck1888 Siwash duck1911 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Apr. 10/1 I finally caught Mr. Indian just as he was coming ashore with his ducks, he had about 60 or 70 in the canoe, but they were mostly scoter or what is more commonly called Siwash ducks. 1927 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 207/2 He could see when any siwash ducks were on a shallow part of the lagoon. 1966 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 20 Mar. 11/4 It is a rare occurrence for a Siwash duck, as the species [sc. surf scoter] is commonly called, to be found on such a shoreline. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). siwashv. North American. 1. intransitive. To camp without a tent, like an Indian. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > camp or encamp [verb (intransitive)] > without tent siwash1938 bivvy1943 1938 T. M. Stanwell-Fletcher Driftwood Valley (1946) v. 94 Since we can't carry the additional weight of a tent, we'll have to siwash under trees. 1977 New Yorker 20 June 64/3 In discrete valleys were a few cabins, and they stayed in them or siwashed (camped on the trail). 2. transitive. To bar (a person) from purchasing alcoholic drink. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [verb (transitive)] > prevent from purchasing alcohol siwash1948 1948 C. W. Holliday Valley of Youth 144 It [sc. Painkiller] was in great demand by the old inebriates during the periods when they had been ‘Siwashed’—which meant that it was illegal to serve them with a drink over the bar or sell them liquor. 1957 A. R. Barratt Coronets & Buckskin 9 Wen a wite man gets so's no one will sell him drinks—well folks say e's been siwashed. Derivatives So (sense 1). ˈsiwashing n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > camping or encamping > [noun] > without tent bivouac1853 siwashing1904 1904 Churchman 21 May 626 I have a lame shoulder, the result of continuous ‘siwashing’ and sleeping in the snow. 1938 T. M. Stanwell-Fletcher Driftwood Valley (1946) vi. 110 The day after our siwashing trip, we lounged about the cabin, luxuriating in a paradise of warmth and rest. 1962 M. E. Murie Two in Far North ii. ix. 194 South Fork Henry no doubt thought we were young fools to be looking forward to a night of siwashing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1847v.1904 |
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