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单词 siwash
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Siwashn.

Brit. /ˈsʌɪwɒʃ/, U.S. /ˈsaɪˌwɔʃ/, /ˈsaɪˌwɑʃ/
Forms: Also Si-wash, siwash.
Etymology: Chinook Jargon, a North American French dialect form of French sauvage (savage adj.) in same sense.
North American.
1.
a. An Indian, spec. of the North Pacific Coast. Frequently attributive. (Now considered pejorative.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

Etymology: < Siwash n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsiwash.
North American.
1. intransitive. To camp without a tent, like an Indian.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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