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"ref": "1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That was the Year that Weren’t”, in Cavalier, New York, N.Y.: DuGent Publishing Corporation, →OCLC; republished in David Cohen, editor, I’m Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs, Lanham, Md.: Backbeat Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2020, page 129",
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"etymology_text": "Clipping of wampumpeag (“wampum”), probably borrowed from Massachusett wampompeage (“string of white beads used as money”), from wamp, wap, wompi (“white”) + umpe (“string”) + -ag (plural suffix).\nCompare peag (“string of white beads used as money”), also a clipping of wampumpeag.\nSense 3 (“common kingsnake”) is from the similarity of the snake’s appearance to a string of wampum.\ncognates\n* Penobscot wάpαpəyak (singular wάpαpi)\n* Unami òpapiàk (singular òpapi)",
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}
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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[
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"word": "hiaqua"
},
{
"word": "peag"
},
{
"tags": [
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"obsolete"
],
"word": "porcelain"
},
{
"word": "seawan"
},
{
"word": "seawant"
}
],
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"uncountable"
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"English uncountable nouns"
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"ref": "1955, J[ames] P[atrick] Donleavy, chapter 17, in The Ginger Man, London: Corgi Books, Transworld Publishers, published 1963, page 192",
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},
{
"ref": "1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That was the Year that Weren’t”, in Cavalier, New York, N.Y.: DuGent Publishing Corporation, →OCLC; republished in David Cohen, editor, I’m Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs, Lanham, Md.: Backbeat Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2020, page 129",
"text": "[M]ore and more people in the folk world suddenly discovered there was more than a little wampum to be made by discovering a trace of Indian blood in their past and donning the traditional headband.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"(uncountable, slang) Money."
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"word": "money"
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"US",
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},
{
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"Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
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"alt-of",
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"ipa": "/ˈwɒmpəm/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɑmpəm/",
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"General-American"
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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],
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{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "vampúm",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "вампу́м"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vampum",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "вампум"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "貝殼串珠"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bèikéchuànzhū",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"word": "贝壳串珠"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Wampum"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vampam"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "wampeom",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "왐펌"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "vampums"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "vampumas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "vámpum",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ва́мпум"
},
{
"code": "pqm",
"lang": "Malecite-Passamaquoddy",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wapap"
},
{
"code": "xpq",
"english": "one bead",
"lang": "Mohegan-Pequot",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "môsôpi"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "oj",
"english": "one bead",
"lang": "Ojibwe",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "miigisag"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vámpum",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ва́мпум"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "es",
"english": "one bead",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chaquira"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "wampum"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vámpum",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ва́мпум"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells (especially white ones) which have been strung together; one such bead",
"word": "vampum"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"McCord Stewart Museum"
],
"word": "wampum"
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