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Siwash

(ˈsaɪwɒʃ)
n
(Peoples) a North American Indian
adj
1. (Peoples) of, characteristic of, or relating to Indians
2. worthless, stingy, or bad: he's siwash.
[C19: from Chinook Jargon, from French sauvage savage]

siwash

(ˈsaɪwɒʃ)
n
(Clothing & Fashion) another name for Cowichan sweater
vb
(intr) (in the Pacific Northwest) to camp out with only natural shelter
[see Siwash]
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siwash


Past participle: siwashed
Gerund: siwashing

Imperative
siwash
siwash
Present
I siwash
you siwash
he/she/it siwashes
we siwash
you siwash
they siwash
Preterite
I siwashed
you siwashed
he/she/it siwashed
we siwashed
you siwashed
they siwashed
Present Continuous
I am siwashing
you are siwashing
he/she/it is siwashing
we are siwashing
you are siwashing
they are siwashing
Present Perfect
I have siwashed
you have siwashed
he/she/it has siwashed
we have siwashed
you have siwashed
they have siwashed
Past Continuous
I was siwashing
you were siwashing
he/she/it was siwashing
we were siwashing
you were siwashing
they were siwashing
Past Perfect
I had siwashed
you had siwashed
he/she/it had siwashed
we had siwashed
you had siwashed
they had siwashed
Future
I will siwash
you will siwash
he/she/it will siwash
we will siwash
you will siwash
they will siwash
Future Perfect
I will have siwashed
you will have siwashed
he/she/it will have siwashed
we will have siwashed
you will have siwashed
they will have siwashed
Future Continuous
I will be siwashing
you will be siwashing
he/she/it will be siwashing
we will be siwashing
you will be siwashing
they will be siwashing
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been siwashing
you have been siwashing
he/she/it has been siwashing
we have been siwashing
you have been siwashing
they have been siwashing
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been siwashing
you will have been siwashing
he/she/it will have been siwashing
we will have been siwashing
you will have been siwashing
they will have been siwashing
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been siwashing
you had been siwashing
he/she/it had been siwashing
we had been siwashing
you had been siwashing
they had been siwashing
Conditional
I would siwash
you would siwash
he/she/it would siwash
we would siwash
you would siwash
they would siwash
Past Conditional
I would have siwashed
you would have siwashed
he/she/it would have siwashed
we would have siwashed
you would have siwashed
they would have siwashed
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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Latuya Bay called loudest, so that the summer of 1898 found him and his wife threading the mazes of the broken coast-line in seventy-foot Siwash canoes.
"It is white man's trouble", he said, "not Siwash trouble.
The Siwashes had waited on the white people until the eleventh hour, and then departed.
The two Siwashes put crosses opposite their signatures, received a summons to appear on the morrow with all their tribe for a further witnessing of things, and were allowed to go.
Here, circled solemnly about a barrel that stood on end in the snow, were Negook and Hadikwan, and all the Siwashes down to the babies and the dogs, come to see the way of the white man's law.
They reached Circle City on the very day when some Siwash Indians came into the settlement with the report that there had been a rich gold strike farther up the river, on a certain Klondike Creek.
Pulled a gun on me one day and ran away with some Siwashes in a canoe.
I prefer Siwash hooks as replacements because their round bend and wide gap provide a good bite.
Some people out there might not be able to distinguish between Tushingham's rantings and the true Siwash. We have to do something.
Charbonneau will also focus in on a pair of stories called The Two Sisters and Siwash Rock.
As the family moves through the country, different locations are identified such as Chilko Lake, Siwash Bridge (and as far back as the whitewater), the Chilcotin River and the snow mountains.
Well, we are knee-deep in another commencement season, and therefore up to our eyeballs in the platitudinous pomposity and cliche-ridden oratory that passes for wisdom every May and June at Dear Old Siwash. Many of these journeys into self-importance come either from wealthy donors granted honorary degrees and naming rights to new campus buildings or from headline-grabbing celebrities sure to make the public better aware of the host institution's existence.