quickhatch
\ KWIK-hach \, noun;
1.a wolverine.
Quotes:
Thereafter the rich American sent swiftly by cable for a beast which he called a quickhatch , and whose name the trappers of the Rocky Mountains use when they want to call any one by a worse name than devil.
-- F. St. Mars, "On Nature's Trail ," 1912
Sabine, who replied in his usual sententious manner— "A Scotchman would call it a ' quickhatch ,' an Indian an 'okelcoo hawgew,' and a Canadian a 'carcajou."' "And what do you call it?" "A wolverene, ma'am," returned Sabine…
-- Jules Verne, Translated by N. D’Anvers, "The Fur Country ," 1873
Origin:
Quickhatch comes from a Native American language called East Cree spoken in what is now Canada; the word was spelled kwi˙hkwaha˙če˙w . It entered English in the 1670s and was earlier spelled quiquahatch.
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