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Kinnekinnic vs Kinnikinnick - What's the difference?

kinnekinnic | kinnikinnick | Alternative forms |

Kinnekinnic is an alternative form of kinnikinnick.


As nouns the difference between kinnekinnic and kinnikinnick

is that kinnekinnic is while kinnikinnick is a mixture of bark, dried leaves and often berries and/or tobacco, which is smoked.

kinnekinnic

English

Noun

  • * 1847 , George William Featherstonhaugh, A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor , page 265:
  • I also asked the great favour of him, as he would sit next to me in the canoe, to smoke as little as possible, as it always made me sick, and gave me a head-ache, to which he replied that he only smoked the kinnekinnic , which is a mild preparation
  • * 1897 , Barnard Shipp, The Indian and Antiquities of America , page 301:
  • There are also in this packet a part of what is supposed to be a Kinnekinnic pouch, two meshes of a fishing-net, and a piece of what is supposed to be the raw material,
  • * 1954 , Milton Lott, The Last Hunt , page 108:
  • It was a vote, Woodfoot thought, tasting the pleasant bitterness of the kinnekinnic , a vote on what happened to the Indian.

    kinnikinnick

    Alternative forms

    * Almost every imaginable spelling variant is attested, including forms with "l" in the first part, like killikinick''. Most variations are very rare; the only common forms are ''kinnikinnick'' , ''kinnikinik''; ''killikinick'', ''killikinnick''; ''k'nick-k'neck . (rare alternative forms) * kanikanik * kilikinick * kinickinic, kinickinick * kinikinic, kinikinick * kinikinnick, kinikinnik * kinikkinik * kinnakinnick * kinnekinic, kinnekinick, kinnekinik * kinnekinnic, kinnekinnick, kinnekinnik * kinnikinick * kinnikinneck

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A mixture of bark, dried leaves and often berries and/or tobacco, which is smoked.
  • Any of the plants whose berries, leaves or bark used in this mixture.
  • ''He ate kinnikinnick berries.

    Meronyms

    * (plant) bearberry (Arctostaphylos''), red osier dogwood ().

    References

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