DCHP-2
wawa ((2))((n.)) Various spellings [< Chinook Jargon] Pacific Coast, Now Slang DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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talk; speech; language; words.
See also: Kinchotch wawa
- c1870 (1873) . . . it was only after much waw-waw (parley) and sundry threats of the skookkum-house (gaol) . . . that one of them was got to undertake to carry him.
- 1860 The Hyters are to visit the Governor at some future time for a "waw-waw."
- 1927 "I seen hyak that I ain't got no chance o' gettin' the best in an exchange o' gay reparty with a jane that slings the wau-wau like she does."
- 1942 Father Le Jeune . . . commenced to publish the Wawa . . . on May 2, 1891. The last issue of the magazine was dated September, 1904.
- c1870 (1873) . . . it was only after much waw-waw (parley) and sundry threats of the skookkum-house (gaol) . . . that one of them was got to undertake to carry him.