weequash

[prettygoodword]

weequash (WEE-kwosh) - v., to spear eels at night.


Especially from a canoe. This is an Americanism, and a obsolete regionalism to boot: an 1877 book of American English claimed it was still used in central Connecticut, but by the 1930s H.L. Menckin describes it as totally obsolete. Adopted from Algonquin, with one suggesting possibly specifically Cree or Ojibwe, with the oldest citation being 1792 but almost certainly well after it was used spoken.

---L.

Comments

[med_cat]

What a fun obsolete word, would've never thought there'd be a word for that...;)

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Especially the canoe part.

---L.

[med_cat]

Indeed, such detail in a single word!