Brewer's: Wigwam'

An Indian hut (America). The Knisteneaux word is wigwaum, and the Algonquin wekou-om-ut, contracted into wekouom (ou = w, as in French), whence wekwom.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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