U.S. Also wickeyup, wickie-up, wi(c)kiup; wakiup, wackie-up. [American Indian (Menominee wikiop, Saki wekeab; cf. Cree mekewap, Montagnais mitshiuap); perh. a variant of wikiwam, WIGWAM.] A rude hut consisting of a frame covered with brushwood or the like, used by nomadic tribes in the west and southwest. Hence extended to any small hut or shanty.
1857. Jrnl. Discourses (1858), V. 80. After feeding to our guide some bread and water … we asked which was the way to Jacob’s ‘Wickyup.’
1872. C. King, Mountain. Sierra Nev., xiii. 273. An Indian ranchero where several willow wickyups were built upon the bank of a cold brook.
1874. T. B. Aldrich, Prud. Palfrey, vii. A city of tents, pine-huts, and rude brush wakiups.
1905. Pearson’s Mag., XIX. 359. The American Indian uses his ‘wackie-up’ as a mere stopping place for a night or two while trekking across country.
