wau-wau

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wau-wau

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From Chinook Jargon wawa.

noun wau-waus · wa-wa · wah-wah · wawa · waw-waw

countable, dated, uncountable A talk; talking; a meeting or conversation. "Blackfoot--one hundred and twenty miles; go slow--Mowitza tired; long wau-wau (talk); come slow--snows high; come soon now, may be." And that was really the only information in the entire "wau-wau" that was of interest to the camp

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@misc{wau_wau_2026,
  title = {wau-wau},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wau-wau},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}