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Mewuk

Mewuk is the alternative spelling of Miwok.

Meaning of Miwok

Noun

Miwok (plural Miwoks or Miwok)

  1. A member of a linguistic group of indigenous people, native to central California.
    • The Miwok pound acorns with pestles […]1925, Kroeber, Alfred, Handbook of Indians of California, Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. (Chapter 30)

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Forms of Mewuk

pluralMewuks
pluralMewuk
alternative formMiwok

Questions about Mewuk

What is Mewuk the alternative spelling of?
Mewuk is the alternative spelling of Miwok.

Words near Mewuk in the dictionary

  1. MEWPs
  2. mews
  3. mews up
  4. mewses
  5. Mewshaw
  6. Mewuk
  7. Mewuks
  8. mex
  9. Mex.
  10. Mexamerica
  11. Mexamerican

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mewuk (page history and authors); Miwok (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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