Washo

[wosh-oh, waw-shoh]

noun

plural

Washos ,

plural

Washo .

1. a member of a tribe of North American Indians living in western Nevada and northeastern California.

2. the Hokan language of the Washo.

Example Sentences

The most suggested pick this round was “Rabbit Boss,” Thomas Sanchez’s 1973 tale of four generations of Washo Indians in the Lake Tahoe region — what The New York Times has called “a lavishly praised novel of epic dimensions about the tragic experience of the American Indian.”

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Languages as distinct as Sino-Tibetan Chinese and Native American Washo use "baba."

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“Bellamy’s death really affected me because it came out of nowhere,” says Jacqueline Washo, a fan from East Syracuse, N.Y.

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Washo is particularly incensed because she can point to tweets from Rothenberg responding to fans in 2015 saying the show wouldn’t kill off a main character and that “without Bellamy there would be nothing.”

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He also said the $310,000 that Washo received wasn’t all bonus money but included back pay for earlier work, and that the bonuses made up for staff and committee members’ low pay and long hours.

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