The following are all words that come up in Three Women Awheel, Book VI of the Tales of Chetzemoka. Addie has to negotiate some prices in one scene, so there are quite a few words from the Chinook trade jargon, a jargon shared by a number of Aboriginal tribes around the Puget Sound area which borrowed words from different tribes as well as from French and English.
This glossary appears at the end of the book, after a collection of 19th-century recipes for all the foods mentioned in the story. Enjoy!
Glossary of Terms
[Taken from the end of Three Women Awheel]
Chatelaine pocket: A waist-hung purse.
Chik'-a-min: Metal. Chinook jargon. Source: Gibbs, George. A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863, p. 2.
Cotton wool: Minimally processed cotton used for packing delicate and fragile objects. Still used in pill bottles to minimize breakage of the product in shipping.
Dirt: Polite euphemism for feces.
Dragon: Chaperone. Nineteenth-century college girl slang. Source: Champney, Elizabeth W., Three Vassar Girls in France, Estes & Lauriet: Boston, 1888, p. 22.
Hyak: Swift, fast. Chinook jargon. (This has become the name of one of the Washington state ferries.) Source: Gibbs, George. A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863, p. 5.
Ikt: One. Chinook jargon. Source: Hale, Horatio, M.A., F.R.S.C., An International Idiom: A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language or Chinook Jargon, London: Whittaker & Co., 1890. p. 13.
Hyas: Very. Chinook jargon. Source: Gibbs, George. A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863, p. 5.
Iktah okook?: What is that? Chinook jargon. Source: Gibbs, George. A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863, p. 19.
Kiu'-a-tan: Horse. Chinook jargon. Source: Gibbs, George. A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863, p. 37.
Kla-how-ya: Standard greeting in the Chinook trade jargon. "It originated from the Indians hearing Mr. (afterwards Sir James) Douglas address his second in command with "Clark, how are you?"" Source: Roper, Edward, F.R.G.S., By Track and Trail: A Journey Through Canada. London: 1891. p. 205.
Klone: Three. Chinook jargon. Source: Gibbs, George. A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863, p. 10.
Lakit: Four. Chinook jargon. Source: Hale, Horatio, M.A., F.R.S.C., An International Idiom: A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language or Chinook Jargon, London: Whittaker & Co., 1890. p. 13.
Mash / to have a mash on someone: A romantic crush. 19th-century slang. Source: McIlvaine, C.W. "Censor" The Nassau Herald. Princeton College, 1878, p. 60: "Boys, you know Miss B… I took her to a cotillion one evening and got a terrible mash on her."
Moxt: Two. Chinook jargon. Source: Hale, Horatio, M.A., F.R.S.C., An International Idiom: A Manual of the Oregon Trade Language or Chinook Jargon, London: Whittaker & Co., 1890. p. 13.
Mute: Owl scat.
O'koke: This, that. Chinook jargon. Source: Gibbs, George. A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863, p. 19.
Sleeve: Gun. Old West slang.
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Wake: No. Chinook jargon. Source: Gibbs, George. A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863, p. 28.
Wrapper: Also called a house dress or a tea gown. An unfitted, one-piece dress for casual lounging and house work.
Wrappers from the 1886 Bloomingdale's catalog
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