wickiup

American  

[wik-ee-uhp] / ˈwɪk iˌʌp /

Or wickyup,

noun

1. (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.

2. Western U.S. any rude hut.

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wickiup British  

/ ˈwɪkɪˌʌp /

noun

1. a crude shelter made of brushwood, mats, or grass and having an oval frame, esp of a kind used by nomadic Indians now in Oklahoma and neighbouring states of the US

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Etymology

Origin of wickiup

1850–55, earlier and still dialectally applied to the bark- or mat-covered wigwams of the Upper Great Lakes Indians < Fox wi·kiya·pi house < Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi; cf. wigwam

Example Sentences

Honorary chairman was none other than Vice President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners.

From Time Magazine Archive

As White Bear talked, he deliberately made his voice loud enough to carry, so that Redbird, in the wickiup, might hear.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

Laying aside his pipe, he spread his blankets in the wickiup, and then walked quietly toward the quaking aspen.

From Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer Or, The Stranger in Camp by Ingraham, Prentiss

Her doeskin shirt and skirt kept the rain off her body, but her hair was soaked and her face was streaming by the time she got back to the wickiup.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert