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UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈwɪkɪˌʌp/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(wik′ē up′)

wick•i•up (wik′ē up′),USA pronunciation n.

Anthropology(in Nevada, Arizona, etc.) an American Indian hut made of brushwood or covered with mats.
Dialect Terms[Western U.S.]any rude hut.

Also, wick′y•up′, wikiup.

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

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wickiup, wikiup, wickyup /ˈwɪkɪˌʌp/ n

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

Etymology: 19th Century: from Sac, Fox, and Kickapoo wikiyap; compare wigwam

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