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Choctaw [chok-taw] Examples noun, plural Choc·taws, (especially collectively) 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.
Related Words for choctaw babble, baloney, gibberish, gobbledygook, hogwash, malarkey, nonsense, rubbish, hooey, Choctaw, Greek, hokum Examples from the Web for choctaw Historical Examples of choctaw
But in the Choctaw language, syllables often end with consonants.
History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians
George Mogridge
Some of the leading pioneers of the Choctaw nation were buried here.
Robert Elliott Flickinger
A contretemps less likely to occur at the Choctaw Chief, and there stayed they.
Mayne Reid
The drinking “saloon” of the Choctaw Chief is quite emptied of its guests.
Mayne Reid
It is my conviction that Shakespeare’s sailor-talk would be Choctaw to him.
What Is Man? And Other Stories
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
British Dictionary definitions for choctaw choctaw noun
- skating a turn from the inside edge of one skate to the outside edge of the other or vice versa
Word Origin for choctaw C19: after Choctaw Choctaw noun
- plural -taws or -taw a member of a Native American people of Alabama
- the language of this people, belonging to the Muskogean family
Word Origin for Choctaw C18: from Choctaw Chahta Word Origin and History for choctaw Choctaw
1722, from Choctaw Chahta, of uncertain meaning, but also said to be from Spanish chato “flattened,” for the tribe’s custom of flattening the heads of male infants. As a figure skating step, first recorded 1892. Sometimes used in 19c. American English as typical of a difficult or incomprehensible language (cf. Greek in this sense from c.1600).