of, characteristic of, or relating to Indians
worthless, stingy, or bad
he's siwash
1830–40; < Chinook Jargon < North American French sauvage Indian, French: wild, savage
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)
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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
Siwash Rock looms into view when you turn a bend between Third Beach and Prospect Point.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2017
Walking the beach in Stanley Park, I snapped photos of Siwash Rock.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2017
I always change the tail hook to a single Siwash and dress it with bucktail.
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
Early in the evening the men of Siwash Creek began to arrive at Pete's cabin.
From The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)
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