wapoose

[< Algonk.: Cree wāpūs rabbit]

North

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a hare or rabbit, especially the varying hare.

Quotations

1743

[A hair or Rabbit Wap puss.]

1791

[English Hare Algonkin Wapoos Chippeway Wapoos.]

<i>c</i>1902

There are . . . wahboos, whose snowy coat is put to the indignity of imitating ermine with a dotting of black cat for the ermine's jet tip.

1931

The leaping progression of Wapoose the white rabbit . . . shows everywhere.

1963

The moose, the deer, the lordly elk, / "Wappus" the rabbit fleet . . . / To us was [sic] all good meat.