单词 | winnebago |
释义 | Winnebagon.adj. A. n. 1. (Now sometimes avoided because of the derogatory implications of its etymology, Ho-Chunk being increasingly preferred, esp. in sense A. 1a. Cf. note at sense B.) a. A member of a North American Indian people formerly inhabiting eastern Wisconsin, now having populations in southern Wisconsin and Nebraska. Cf. Ho-Chunk n. 1. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Siouan peoples Manahoac1608 Winnebago1766 Ho-Chunk1943 1766 J. Carver Jrnl. 25 Sept. in J. Parker Jrnls. J. Carver & Related Documents, 1766–70 (1976) I. 78 Arrivd at the great town of the Winebaygoes. 1839 H. R. Schoolcraft Algic Researches I. 13 The Winnebagoes are clearly of the Abanic stock. 1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 832/1 The Winnebagoes are a branch of the Dakota family. 1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 958/1 The Winnebago have been known to the whites since 1634, when the Frenchman Nicollet found them in Wisconsin, on Green Bay. 1966 A. C. Hardy Divine Flame iii. 65 Those tribes belonging to the great Sioux family such as the Omaha, Ponka, Kansas, Dakota, Iowa, Winnebago, etc. 2012 R. L. Welsch Embracing Fry Bread xxi. 83 The Omahas, Santees, Poncas, and Winnebagos..went well out of their way to welcome their old neighbors..back to their ancestral home. b. The Siouan language of the Winnebago. Cf. Ho-Chunk n. 2. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Sioux language family > languages of Sioux1776 Missouri1804 Osage1804 Mandan1805 Winnebago1831 Yuchi1836 Crow1846 Otoe1848 Yankton1849 Dakotana1856 Assiniboine1872 Teton1877 Santee1882 Kansa1933 Oglala1933 Lakota1939 Omaha1957 Hidatsa1964 Ho-Chunk1997 1831 C. Atwater Remarks Tour to Prairie du Chien 82 ‘Nan’ is a place in Winnebago, so it is in Chinese. 1860 Harper's Mag. Sept. 568/2 As he could not speak Winnebago, the first thing to be done was to find an interpreter. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Siouan family includes many languages, such as..Winnebago, Mandan, Crow. 1975 Language 51 317 Ferguson..suggests that Hockett's analysis of Winnebago is unusual. 2007 Jrnl. Amer. Indian Educ. 46 49 When..I'd bring a friend home we would talk to each other in Winnebago and then mom..would be like ‘What are you saying? Tell us, teach us what you learned.’ 2. Originally and chiefly U.S. A proprietary name for: a type of large camper van or motor home equipped with facilities for living in while travelling long distances.Winnebago Industries was founded in 1958 in Forest City, Iowa, in Winnebago County. Originally a manufacturer of travel trailers and caravans, the company produced its first motor home, the Winnebago Lifetime Premier, in 1966. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle used as living accommodation > proprietary Dormobile1952 Winnebago1973 1966 Mobile Home Jrnl. Oct. (advt.) (rear cover) Your most enjoyable travel companion is a Winnebago Pickup Camper Coach.] 1973 T. Crouse Boys on Bus i. vii. 155 Each Winnebago was filled with about a dozen gnomes whose job it was to sit over typewriters all day and turn out tons of hype to send to hard-up TV editors at newspapers all over America. 2009 J. Kellerman True Detectives xxvi. 257 On the beach side, the tide was moderate and gentle. No surfers, the only vehicle in sight a Winnebago pulled to the side. B. adj. Of or belonging the Winnebago (sense A. 1a); (also) designating the Winnebago or their language. Cf. Ho-Chunk adj.In recent use sometimes avoided because of the derogatory implications of its etymology, Ho-Chunk being preferred in some contexts. The term is still used in some official capacities by the Nebraska Ho-Chunk, as in their federal tribal name, the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Π 1827 Spirit of '76 (Frankfort, Kentucky) 2 Aug. 2/1 An express reached here this moment from Galena..with information of hostilities having been commenced by the Winnebago Indians, on the settlers. 1886 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 12 June 5/2 The case was adjourned until 23d inst., the delay being caused by the absence of an interpreter in the Winnebago language. 1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 81 Winnebago women's mocassins have a flap over the toe. 2014 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 19 Oct. b1 A controversial Indian mission school for the Winnebago children that lived in the region. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.adj.1766 |
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