siwash

¹ American  

[sahy-wosh, -wawsh] / ˈsaɪ wɒʃ, -wɔʃ /

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a contemptuous term used to refer to a North American Indian.

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verb (used without object)

1. to camp out without a tent or supplies.

Siwash ² American  

[sahy-wosh, -wawsh] / ˈsaɪ wɒʃ, -wɔʃ /

noun

1. a conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often preceded byold ).

   students from old Siwash.

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Siwash ¹ British  

/ ˈsaɪwɒʃ /

noun

1. a North American Indian

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adjective

1. of, characteristic of, or relating to Indians

2. worthless, stingy, or bad

   he's siwash

siwash ² British  

/ ˈsaɪwɒʃ /

noun

1. another name for Cowichan sweater

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verb

1. (intr) (in the Pacific Northwest) to camp out with only natural shelter

Etymology

Origin of siwash¹

1830–40; < Chinook Jargon < North American French sauvage Indian, French: wild, savage

Origin of Siwash²

After a fictional college of the same name in At Good Old Siwash (1911) and other books by U.S. author George Helgeson Fitch (1877–1915)

Example Sentences

Use at least a 5/0 siwash hook and sharpen it.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2016

The last method of setting up a Super Bait is with a single siwash hook.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2016

When it was a bit lighter he rose and walked out and cut a perimeter about their siwash camp looking for sign but other than their own faint track through the ash he saw nothing.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Jesus potlatch kopa siwash, Spose mesika hias kloshe, Konoway iktas mesika tikegh Kopa Saghalie, kwanesum.

From Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language by Eells, Myron