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Wame

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• Wammus

  noun, plural wammuses. 1. wamus (def 2).

• Wampanoag

  noun, plural Wampanoags (especially collectively) Wampanoag. 1. a member of a once-powerful North American Indian people who inhabited the area east of Narragansett Bay from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket at the time of the Pilgrim settlement. 2. the Eastern Algonquian speech of the Wampanoag people, a dialect of Massachusett.

• Wampish

  verb (used without object), Scot. 1. to wave about or flop to and fro.

• Wampum

  noun 1. Also called peag, seawan, sewan. cylindrical beads made from shells, pierced and strung, used by North American Indians as a medium of exchange, for ornaments, and for ceremonial and sometimes spiritual purposes, especially such beads when white but also including the more valuable black or dark-purple varieties. 2. Informal. money. noun 1. (formerly) […]

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