DCHP-2
wapoose [< Algonk.: Cree wāpūs rabbit] North DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a hare or rabbit, especially the varying hare.
See also: varying hare
- c1902 There are . . . wahboos, whose snowy coat is put to the indignity of imitating ermine with a dotting of black cat for the ermine's jet tip.
- 1743 (1949) [A hair or Rabbit Wap puss.]
- 1791 [English Hare Algonkin Wapoos Chippeway Wapoos.]
- 1931 The leaping progression of Wapoose the white rabbit . . . shows everywhere.
- 1963 The moose, the deer, the lordly elk, / "Wappus" the rabbit fleet . . . / To us was [sic] all good meat.
- c1902 There are . . . wahboos, whose snowy coat is put to the indignity of imitating ermine with a dotting of black cat for the ermine's jet tip.