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单词 wickiup
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
wick•i•up  (wikē up′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Anthropology(in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
  2. Dialect Terms[Western U.S.]any rude hut.
Also, wicky•up′, wikiup. 
  • Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi; compare wigwam
  • Fox wi·kiya·pi house
  • earlier and still dialectally applied to the bark- or mat-covered wigwams of the Upper Great Lakes Indians 1850–55, American.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
wickiup, wikiup, wickyup /ˈwɪkɪˌʌp/ n
  1. US Canadian a crude shelter made of brushwood, mats, or grass and having an oval frame, esp of a kind used by nomadic Indians now in Oklahoma and neighbouring states of the US
Etymology: 19th Century: from Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo wikiyap; compare wigwam
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