hyas

[< Chinook Jargon; cf. Nootka īh big, large]

B.C.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj. adv.

large; big; very.

See: hyiu

1860

San Diego, he used to say, was a hyas klosh (very good) city--for at that time (he said) it was much larger than San Francisco.

1915

Hias Peter had a bias gun, and he raised it to his shoulder. . . .

1953

This evening we pitch off. We leave hyas quick--in half a pipe.

1958

But moosmoos is not a moose; it means cattle. Moose is ulchey or hyas mowitch, big deer.