Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Native American infant or very young child.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A North American Indian babe or young child, commonly carried by its mother bound up and strapped to a board, or hung up so as to be out of harm's way.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an American Indian infant
Etymologies
- From Narragansett papoos ("child") (Wiktionary)
- Narragansett papoòs, child. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But if a child is very disruptive and they can be VERY fussy, a papoose is a safer way to control the patient.”
“Occasionally, "papoose" or "squaw" is used for given names, or a number is used in place of the given name.”
“He looked eagerly and anxiously at them, as if seeking for the "papoose" who was a little larger than Russ.”
“papoose," or child, wigwam, &c. &c., though it is doubtful whether they belonged at all to any Indian dialect, are much used by both white and red men in their Intercourse.”
“Among the western Eskimo, "the mother who loses her nursling places the poor 'papoose' in a beautifully ornamented box, which she fastens on her back and carries about her for a long while.”
“I wish I knew what he meant by that 'papoose' he's always talking about. ”
“[Footnote: An Indian baby; but "papoose" is not an Indian word.”
“[Footnote: An Indian baby, but "papoose" is not an Indian word.”
“A half-black, half-Cherokee papoose that cost you 35 grand.”
“There were little blankets designed to wrap the baby like a papoose, but I worried that I would wrap the child too tight and suffocate her.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘papoose’.
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Cute
My boyfriend and I started this list my Junior or Senior year of High school. It hasn't been added to in a while. It was a list of words that we thought sounded universally cute or had universal as...
cupcake, doilee, mitten, kitten, squiggle, button, cheek, papoose, pupa, sleep, cookie, treat and 45 more...
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kerniving, scandinavia, confectionary, mangrove, bejewelled, flesh, crystalline, gazelle, pantaloons, bluebird, caribou, albatross and 88 more...
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From the Algonquin et al.
Words derived from the innumerable languages of native Americans and the First Nations of Canada. I want to shine some light on this underexposed etymological background to so many common (and som...
raccoon, persimmon, mummichog, caucus, bayou, caribou, geoduck, chipmunk, skunk, opossum, moose, squash and 84 more...
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P is for Porch Dog
My P Words
paddington, paddy wagon, paddy whack, paddywhack, paisano, pandemonium, pantaloon, pantaloons, paper tiger, papoose, parachute pants, parcel and 109 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
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p is for...
my favorite voiceless bilabial plosive.
panacea, persnickety, panache, provenance, preternatural, penumbra, perfunctory, perspicacity, potentate, pinguid, plainsong, pleonastic and 228 more...
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On The Road
Words gathered while reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
jailkid, lovething, worklife, longbody, benny, lout, dingledody, intellectualness, huaraches, twink, pisscall, buddhistic and 109 more...
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Portnoy's Complaint
Words gathered while reading Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
bonditt, goy, kishkas, goyische, shkotzim, if-onlying, pishachs, schvartze, milchiks, flaishedigeh, galvanic, chazerai and 123 more...
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Ute
Durable items invented by Hom. Sap.
alpenhorn, matchbox, plinth, pillow, cantilever, fulcrum, troika, cloverleaf, nib, wheelbarrow, dictabelt, cockpit and 184 more...
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smock, smock, smock!
things that are just fun to say
trivet, onomatopoeia, whippersnapper, grout, smock, smirk, kibosh, fracas, gaggle, denizen, smorgasbord, soliloquy and 104 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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May or May Not Be Specific, But It's ...
This list will contain all non-excremental references to poo. See its ancestor list, Specific Excrement, which has generated no small amount of conversation (heated and otherwise) since its incepti...
fernando poo, a pooping sea, poop deck, clinchpoop, pimiento load, crappie, very reverend con..., pookimo, pootalian, kickapoo, skypoo, swheat-n-poo and 72 more...
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pretty sounds
vermouth, floozy, bungalow, iota, petrify, perpetural, ricochet, chartreuse, shirk, shiver, shatter, tussle and 44 more...
Tweets
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madmouth "It is an Eskimo papoose, darling!" -Eddie Monsoon from Absolutely Fabulous Apr 13, 2009
treeseed A papoose (from the Algonquian papoos, meaning "child") is an English loanword whose present meaning (to non-native Americans) is "an American Indian child" (regardless of tribe). The word came originally from the Narragansett.
_Wikipedia Feb 19, 2008