Crossword clues for winnebago
winnebago
- Popular motor home
- "Lost in America" vehicle
- A member of the Siouan-speaking people formerly living in eastern Wisconsin south of Green Bay
- Ally of the Menomini and enemy of the Fox and Sauk people
- The Siouan language spoken by the Winnebago people
- Get Bill back to motorhome
- A motor home I won and began to convert
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Winnebagoes \Win`ne*ba"goes\, n.; sing. Winnebago. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Siouan people of eastern Wisconsin," 1766, from Potawatomi winepyekoha, literally "person of dirty water," in reference to the muddy or fish-clogged waters of the Fox River below Lake Winnebago. As a type of motor vehicle, attested from 1966.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 233
Land area (2000): 0.283982 sq. miles (0.735510 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.283982 sq. miles (0.735510 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53275
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.237167 N, 96.471582 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68071
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Headwords:
Winnebago
Housing Units (2000): 1023
Land area (2000): 1.391802 sq. miles (3.604751 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.391802 sq. miles (3.604751 sq. km)
FIPS code: 82491
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.265652 N, 89.240548 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61088
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Headwords:
Winnebago
Housing Units (2000): 705
Land area (2000): 2.201195 sq. miles (5.701068 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007570 sq. miles (0.019607 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.208765 sq. miles (5.720675 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70924
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 43.765993 N, 94.168506 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56098
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Headwords:
Winnebago
Housing Units (2000): 5065
Land area (2000): 400.466598 sq. miles (1037.203684 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.104145 sq. miles (2.859723 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 401.570743 sq. miles (1040.063407 sq. km)
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.363799 N, 93.725153 W
Headwords:
Winnebago, IA
Winnebago County
Winnebago County, IA
Housing Units (2000): 114404
Land area (2000): 513.736898 sq. miles (1330.572400 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.537001 sq. miles (14.340767 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 519.273899 sq. miles (1344.913167 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.311119 N, 89.081630 W
Headwords:
Winnebago, IL
Winnebago County
Winnebago County, IL
Housing Units (2000): 64721
Land area (2000): 438.583645 sq. miles (1135.926377 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 140.117791 sq. miles (362.903396 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 578.701436 sq. miles (1498.829773 sq. km)
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.089834 N, 88.568974 W
Headwords:
Winnebago, WI
Winnebago County
Winnebago County, WI
Wikipedia
Winnebago can refer to:
- Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, a federally recognized tribe
- The exonym of the Ho-Chunk tribe of Native Americans with reservations in Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin
- The Winnebago language of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe
- Winnebago Industries, a manufacturer of recreational vehicles based in Forest City, Iowa
Usage examples of "winnebago".
A weary Winnebago Tom ran down the soiled list for a final time and committed it to the flame of his lighter.
He told Jimmy about the Andros run and explained the deal he had cut with Winnebago Tom Cruz.
There, parked at the end of a man-made jetty, sat two Winnebago campers and a beer truck.
He was reaching for the tire iron when Winnebago Tom clipped him along the side of his head with the butt of the pistol.
Smartass Prospect, you tell your fucking patsy father that nobody fucks with Winnebago Tom.
With the Winnebago as his traveling office, the docks at sunset were a good place to transact business, pick up snippets of information, and troll for fresh meat to be savored later on the pull-out double bed beneath the ceiling mirror.
The few passersby on the still night stared incuriously as Albury drove along the seawall until the Winnebago was about seventy-five feet from the end.
Somewhere on the bottom of the roiling channel was the nicest Winnebago in town.
He had become interested in the Winnebago group through a picture of them in the newspaper, and thought it would be a fine thing for Gladys.
Just before they sang the Goodnight Song, Nyoda drew Gladys into the group and officially invited her to become a Winnebago at the next Council Fire.
Both gentlemen expressed their unbounded admiration for the physical prowess of the Winnebago girls and remarked on their splendid ability to pull together.
Now in the middle of the hem in the front of your dress you may put the Winnebago symbol--the sign of your tribe.
It was not a passenger, however, that was left on the Winnebago dock, but a wooden box from the express company.
Great interest was aroused when the girls said they were from Camp Winnebago, for the fame of some of their doings had gone about the village, and their singing on the lake at night had been heard by more people than they knew.
Lake Camp sends greetings to Camp Winnebago and begs permission to send a delegation to call and pay its respects.