Appendix:English dictionary-only terms of Native American origin


 * This is an offshoot of Appendix:English terms of Native American origin.

The following terms derive from Native American languages, but appear only in dictionaries, not in actual use in ≥3 literary works.

Words

 * chebog (C) — "menhaden" — from an 🇨🇬 language, probably 🇨🇬
 * kiskatom, kiskitom, kiskitomas, kisky-Thomas-nut, keskatama — "hickory-nut" — from an 🇨🇬 word meaning "rough" (compare 🇨🇬)? (see Kiskatom)
 * moose-misse (C) (also: missey-moosey, moose-miss) — "any of several plants, including the false wintergreen (Pyrola americana), Sorbus americana or Viburnum lantanoides" (in New England usage) — 🇨🇬 (compare 🇨🇬)
 * nanticoke (C) — "(particular?) bean", (Nanticoke) "tribe inhabiting Chesapeake Bay, Delware" — from 🇨🇬, the tribe's autonym
 * neeshaw (or: neshaw) (C) — "eel" (used by the fisherman of Martha's Vineyard) — 🇨🇬
 * neeskotting (neeskot) (C) — "spearing fish at night by torchlight using a long pole with a hook on the end" — probably from a 🇨🇬 cognate of 🇨🇬
 * okow (C) (also: occow) — "Sander vitreus, the yellow walleye" (in older references, the obsolete scientific name Lucioperca americana is used) — probably from 🇨🇬 / 🇨🇬 (though some sources derive it from 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬 instead)
 * quasky — "blue-back trout" — variant of "oquassa"
 * sagakomi (C) (or: sacacomi, saccacomi; possibly also: sagakomin) — "mixture, including bearberries (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), which is smoked" — 🇨🇬 (modern orthography: zaga-(g?)-omin; "smoking berry"), from
 * shanatawhee — "root of the edible thistle" — (from a group Lewis and Clark encountered; their account suggests 🇨🇬; alternatively, perhaps 🇨🇬)
 * sunck (or: sunck-squaw, sunk-squaw) — "female chief or important person" (obsolete; contrasted with a male mugwump) — probably from 🇨🇬?
 * tawkee (or: tawkie, tawkim, tawko) — "golden club (fish)", "Virginia wake-robin" — a 🇨🇬 term *p'tukwi ("round"); compare 🇨🇬
 * tuckernuck (C) — "picnic", "particular kind of candy" — the "picnic" sense is either from the name of the island off Nantucket, from a New England 🇨🇬 word meaning "loaf of bread" (per William Bright's Native American Placenames of the United States), or directly from an 🇨🇬 word meaning "picnic"; the "candy" sense is perhaps unrelated to this and related to "tuck shop"
 * wabashed (see: Citations:Wabashing) — "cheated" — from the river "Wabash" ("dirty white")
 * wammikin (C) — "wooden raft with a shanty containing a kitchen and bedroom on it" — from a Maine Algonquian language; compare wannigan
 * wampapin — "water chinquapin (Nelum lutea)" — 🇨🇬 "crooked root"
 * wapacut (also: wapacuthu?) — "snowy owl" — probably 🇨🇬 (probably 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬)
 * wauregan (C) — "good, fine, showy" — 🇨🇬 or possibly 🇨🇬, related to 🇨🇬
 * weesick — "" (used around the Connecticut River) — an 🇨🇬 language
 * wenona (or: Wenona) — "" — (definition per FWH, who derives it "")
 * whiggiggin — "written permit to hunt" — 🇨🇬
 * wigwassing or wequashing — "taking of eels by torchlight" — 🇨🇬 wigwas, "birch bark"
 * wiskinky, wiskinkie — "officer of the/a Tammany Society" — from a (🇨🇬?) word wiskinkhie meaning "his eye"
 * yawknut (or even more rarely: yockernut (or yockeynut) — "water chinkapin" — (from "yoncopin" + "nut")