DCHP-3

meetsu(k)

[< Algonk.; Cree; cf. Ojibwa mīchit he eats it]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Spelling variants:
meatsu(k), meetsook

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a meal; mealtime.

See: mitshim

Quotations

1896
After our "metsook" of bacon, bread and tea, Napasis spent the evening in making "cakes."
<i>c</i>1900
He did not have much hair on his head and when it was meet-su, when the Bishop eat his fish, he shoo that mosquito away. . . .
1909
In the scow next us the two young Crees who are preparing the food for our evening "meat-su" carry on a religious controversy as they slice the sow-belly.
1934
"Meetsuk! Meetsuk"--yelled Robillard as he swung a frying pan full of steaming beans towards us, and lifted the copper tea kettle off the roaring fire with a stick.