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verb
Powwow  v. i.  
1.
To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.
2.
Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting. (Archaic, formerly Colloq. U. S.)
3.
To hold a meeting to discuss an issue. (Informal)





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"Powwow" Quotes from Famous Books



... as if in sudden recollection. "Dicky Nahl was along here, and he said Terrill and Meeker and the other gang was holding a powwow at Borton's, and we'd best look out ...
— Blindfolded • Earle Ashley Walcott
... idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement[obs3]; tripotage[obs3], cackle, prittle-prattle[obs3], cancan, on dit[Fr]; talk of the town, talk of the village. conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione[It]; congress &c. (council) 696; powwow [U. S.]. hall of audience, durbar[obs3]. palaver, debate, logomachy[obs3], war of words. gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer &c. (loquacity) 584; interlocutor &c. (spokesman) 582; conversationist[obs3], dialogist[obs3]. "the feast ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... laughed McNabb. "But run along now—the two of ye. It's many a long day since Dugald an' I have had a powwow with our feet cocked up on bales of Injun goods." As the two walked arm in arm toward the door, McNabb called to the girl, "Here, lass, take your coat!" He tossed the Russian sable which the girl caught with a glad ...
— The Challenge of the North • James Hendryx


Words linked to "Powwow" :   talk over, huddler, colloquialism, discuss, council, group discussion


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