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woop-'eek

Dictionary entry

woop-'eekadv • out in the water (of an island, etc.)

Lexicon record # 3980 | Source reference(s): R266
Semantic domain: directions and locations

Sentence example (1)

  1. Noohl 'o ne-wee' kwe-see mues-chen hlkehl wee' woop-'eek nue-mee 'o-lo-nekw.
    Then they saw that it really was land lying right out in the ocean.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)