DCHP-3

oomiak-tupek

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a kind of tupek having the appearance of an inverted oomiak, used by certain Eskimos.

See: tupek

Quotations

1865
[The Innuit name of it is Oo-mi-en-wa, from its resemblance to an inverted oo-mi-en.]
1958
And her husband, the provider, must at all times be properly shod and dressed. Often I heard her sewing machine from the depths of the oomiak-tupek as our komatik passed along.