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  siwash

  noun

  a contemptuous term used to refer to a North American Indian.
• Siwash
  Siwash

  noun

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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2016

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

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

Walking the beach in Stanley Park, I snapped photos of Siwash Rock.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2017

Siwash Rock looms into view when you turn a bend between Third Beach and Prospect Point.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2017

Nostalgia about dear old Siwash is all very well, but the basic purpose of alumni magazines is really to help academic fund raisers track down and put the arm on contributors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, did they not assure you that they were sons of Dear Old Siwash, you would never of your own initiative have made that inference.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since I saw you that wild night at Siwash Creek your image has been enshrined in my heart.

From The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody