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English
wistonwish
Etymology
From a Native American word which was an onomatopoeic representation of the animals' cry.[1]
Noun
wishtonwish (plural wishtonwishes)
- (US, obsolete, except perhaps in dialects) The prairie dog.
1812 April, “Pike's Expedition”, in The General Repository and Review, volume 1, page 398:On the twenty fourth of October, while on a short excursion from this place, Lt. Pike and Dr. Robertson, (a gentleman who accompanied the expedition,) killed some prairie squirrels, or wishtonwishes, and nine rattle snakes, […]
1937, James Thurber, Let Your Mind Alone, page 189:[…] who, it turned out, devoted all his spending money to them, asked me if I had ever seen a "wishtonwish."
References
- ^ 1910, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, part 2, page 965