weequashingn.

Brit.

/ˈwiːkwɒʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈwiˌkwɔʃɪŋ/,

/ˈwiˌkwɑʃɪŋ/

Forms: 1700s– weequashing, 1800s– wequashing, 1800s 1900s wigwassing.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from a Southern New England Algonquian language, combined with an English element. Etymon: -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Apparently < an unattested word in a Southern New England Algonquian language + -ing suffix¹.The form wigwassing is a learned alteration after Ojibwa wigwaass birchbark, based on a suggested etymology by J.H. Trumbull, who associated the activity with birchbark torches; however, such torches were not used for the purpose, and no cognates of the Ojibwa word are attested in southern New England, where the word was borrowed.

U.S. regional (New England). Now historical and rare.

The spearing of eels or fish from a canoe by torchlight.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > spearing

spear-fishing1601

shoaling1792

weequashing1792

gaffing1830

1792 N. Freeman Let. 23 Sept. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. I. 231 The Indians, when they go in a canoe with a torch, to catch eels in the night, call it Weequash, or anglicised, weequashing.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 436 Vast quantities [of suckers] are taken..by spearing by torchlight or ‘weequashing’.

1979 F. G. Hutchins Mashpee vii. 139 On warm evenings in the spring and fall, Indians went ‘weequashing’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	weequashing
释义	weequashingn. Brit. /ˈwiːkwɒʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwiˌkwɔʃɪŋ/, /ˈwiˌkwɑʃɪŋ/ Forms: 1700s– weequashing, 1800s– wequashing, 1800s 1900s wigwassing. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from a Southern New England Algonquian language, combined with an English element. Etymon: -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Apparently < an unattested word in a Southern New England Algonquian language + -ing suffix¹.The form wigwassing is a learned alteration after Ojibwa wigwaass birchbark, based on a suggested etymology by J.H. Trumbull, who associated the activity with birchbark torches; however, such torches were not used for the purpose, and no cognates of the Ojibwa word are attested in southern New England, where the word was borrowed. U.S. regional (New England). Now historical and rare. The spearing of eels or fish from a canoe by torchlight. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > spearing spear-fishing1601 shoaling1792 weequashing1792 gaffing1830 1792 N. Freeman Let. 23 Sept. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. I. 231 The Indians, when they go in a canoe with a torch, to catch eels in the night, call it Weequash, or anglicised, weequashing. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 436 Vast quantities [of suckers] are taken..by spearing by torchlight or ‘weequashing’. 1979 F. G. Hutchins Mashpee vii. 139 On warm evenings in the spring and fall, Indians went ‘weequashing’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1792
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