DCHP-2
wickiup † < Algonk.; cf. Sauk wikiyap; cp. Cree weke lodge DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a rude shelter, as a lean-to; originally a brush or mat-covered shelter among certain Algonkian Indians.
See also: lean-to meetchwop wigwam ((n.)) (def. 1a)
- 1897 Wickiup, now a common name throughout the West, of any rude temporary shelter like a hut or hovel, is said to be from an Algonquian word rendered mikiouaps [error for wikiouaps], meaning a conical leather lodge, wigwam, or tepee.
- 1912 I have not always lived so. Time was when I had my own wickiup, when I lay by my own night-fire and played with the braids of a woman's hair.
- 1920 . . . . I'd gone kiting off to prairie-ranch and a wickiup with a leaky roof."
- 1923 "This really won't do," he chided himself as he strode back in the frigid moonlight to his primitive wickiup.
- 1961 Don has already told his boys . . . how to build a brush "wickiup" shelter, and even . . . how to make fire without a match.
- 1897 Wickiup, now a common name throughout the West, of any rude temporary shelter like a hut or hovel, is said to be from an Algonquian word rendered mikiouaps [error for wikiouaps], meaning a conical leather lodge, wigwam, or tepee.