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si•wash
(sī′wosh, -wôsh),USA pronunciation Pacific Northwest, Northwest Canada, and Alaska.
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v.i.
Si•wash (sī′wosh, -wôsh),USA pronunciation n.
n.
- (sometimes cap.) [Disparaging and Offensive.]a North American Indian.
v.i.
- to camp out without a tent or supplies.
- North American French sauvage Indian, French: wild, savage
- Chinook Jargon
- 1830–40
Si•wash (sī′wosh, -wôsh),USA pronunciation n.
- Educationa conventional designation for any small, provincial college or for such colleges collectively (often prec. by old):students from old Siwash.
- after a fictional college of the same name in At Good Old Siwash (1911) and other books by U.south, southern. author George Helgeson Fitch (1877–1915)