tyeen.
/ˈtʌɪiː/ 1. A chief; a person of distinction. North American slang.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one who is distinguished or notable
palma1525
somebodya1566
Dona1635
great gun1657
lion1715
bahadur1776
tyee1792
lioness1808
top-sawyer1826
roi soleil1880
1792 in E. Healey Hist. Alert Bay (1958) 15 The Ty-ee, or chief, of the village paid us an early visit.
1866 J. K. Lord Naturalist in Brit. Columbia I. 161 I was presented to the chiefs as a Hyas tyee (great chief), one of ‘King George's’ men.
1877 Puget Sound (Washington) Argus 23 Nov. With the coming of the military among us came a big church ‘tyhee’, who told us that the soldiers were come to protect us.
1880 D. M. Gordon Mountain & Prairie 117 We were surprised to find, at the head of Stewart Lake, a well-stocked farm, owned and worked by the Indian ‘tyhee’.
1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl.
1911 Chambers's Jrnl. July 439 Thither when a tyhee [i.e. a wealthy Chinese man] dies, wends a noisy procession.
1927 A. Philip Painted Cliff 14 J. B. Smith is the high muck-a-muck, the tyee of the mining business of British Columbia.
1963 Brit. Columbia Digest Oct. 54/2 A British officer..may have told the Chief that he was now the great Tyee of the country. The Indian took the words literally and elevated himself to top position.
1966 H. Marriott Cariboo Cowboy v. 54 The agricultural tyees in both Canada and the United States have taken a wise view.
2. The king-salmon or quinnat ( Oncorhynchus chouicha or quinnat). Also attributive.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > member of genus Oncorhyncus (chinook)
red fish1763
spring salmon1776
gorbuscha1784
keta1824
quinnat1829
Chinook salmon1851
coho1869
king salmon1871
silver trout1873
kokanee1875
salmon1884
sockeye1888
chisel-mouth1889
pink salmon1899
spring1900
tyee1902
pink1905
blackmouth1906
chum1908
greenback cut-throat1989
1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 151 Chinook Salmon... Other names by which this fish is known are quinnat salmon,..tyee, tchaviche, and tschawytscha.
1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 373/1 The quinnat, chinook, or ty-hee (chief) commonly known as the Spring Salmon.
1909 Morning Leader 6 Feb. 4/4 He caught four and Mr. Bonnell two ‘Tyee’ salmon;..only three other ‘Tyees’ were taken.
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