wickiup

or wick·y·up, wik·i·up

[ wik-ee-uhp ]

noun

1. (in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
2. Western U.S. any rude hut.

wickiup

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of wickiup¹

1850–55, Americanism; 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; wigwam

Word History and Origins

Origin of wickiup¹

C19: from Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo wikiyap; compare wigwam

Example Sentences

Then she tried to disguise the shelter by erecting a palm-frond wickiup on the roof.

From Washington Post

There you will see the rows of wickiups," said the Basket Woman, "with the doors all opening eastward to the sun.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

One moment the Apaches were squatting among their lodges; and in the next moment people and goods and wickiups were gone; the place was bare.

From Project Gutenberg

Her teeth and eyes gleamed in the faint light within the wickiup.

From Project Gutenberg