Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A frame hut covered with matting, as of bark or brush, used by nomadic Native Americans of North America.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American Indian house or hut; especially, a rude hut, as of brushwood, such as is built by the Apaches and other low tribes: in distinction from the tepee of skins stretched on stacked lodge-poles. Wickiups are built on the spot as required, and are not moved.
- noun Hence any small hut or shanty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Vars of
wikiup .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
domed hut , similar to awigwam , used by somesemi -nomadic Native American tribes , particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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a tree, and have erected a "wickiup" of green pine boughs overlapping like a thatched roof, which will turn off the rain if it comes, and I have advised the others of our party to make similar preparations for a rain.
The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Nathaniel Pitt Langford 1871
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But I must have been drunker, for presently he carried me home in one hand (I weighed about fourteen stone then) and dropped me into my wickiup-through the roof, not the door, unfortunately.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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We must find a pretty, secluded spot, he snarled, and build a bower for my bride's reception; we lit on a little pine grove by a brook, and there we built a wickiup-or rather, he did, while I got in the way and made helpful suggestions, and he damned the day he'd ever seen me-and stored it with food and blankets and cooking gear.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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At the same time he'd no idea of what Spain or Britain or the United States or even Texas really were-dammit, he thought the whole white race was only ten thousand strong, and obviously imagined Queen Victoria living in a wickiup somewhere over the hills.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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They can be just as pert and hoity-toity in a Mimbreno wickiup as they can in a Belgravia drawing-room, believe me.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Well, this was news to me, of course, although her conduct in the wickiup had suggested that she had some such arrangement in mind.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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We told the young Greenpeace fund raiser that due to the "low budge = no budget" Rupert Murdock style fiscal philosophy practiced by most of the liberal web site publishers, I couldn't actually give her some dinero, but I could dash right back to my wickiup and pound out a sympathetic column on my new (used) laptop.
Printing: Will Republicans rally to save the white bears? 2010
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She was reclining on a blanket at the door of the wickiup, on one elbow, that sturdy little brown body a-gleam in the fireglow as though it had been oiled, and not a stitch on except for the patterned head-band above the cinnamon eyes that gleamed like hot coals, and the tight white leggings that came up to her hips.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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We told the young Greenpeace fund raiser that due to the "low budge = no budget" Rupert Murdock style fiscal philosophy practiced by most of the liberal web site publishers, I couldn't actually give her some dinero, but I could dash right back to my wickiup and pound out a sympathetic column on my new (used) laptop.
OpEdNews - Diary: Will Republicans rally to save the white bears? 2010
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After the funeral, the Yawner told me I must take my pony to Sonsee-array's wickiup and leave it there-so I did, watched by the whole village, and madam ignored it.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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