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choctaw

/chok-taw/US // ˈtʃɒk tɔ //UK // (ˈtʃɒktɔː) //

乔克托,乔克托语,乔克托人,乔科托

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural Choc·taws, Choc·taw for 1.

    • : a member of a large Muskhogean tribe of North American Indians, formerly living chiefly in southern Mississippi, now in Oklahoma.
    • : the language of the Choctaw, closely related to Chickasaw.
    • : something unintelligible, as speech, illegible handwriting, or an ineffectual explanation; gibberish: My best efforts at clarity were Choctaw to him.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The first playmates of our infancy were the young Choctaw boys of the then woods of Warren county.

  • They participate equally in the advantages of the Choctaw academy, and have had many of their youth educated at that institution.

  • Eagle Dance, Choctaw—Holding the eagles tail in the hand, and bodies painted white.

  • At length six hundred Choctaw warriors arrived, and the army resumed its march.

  • Every one knows who his mother, in our sense, is: the Choctaw term denotes a tribal status.