Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at chingachgook.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Chingachgook.
Examples
-
Huron maidens open their eyes wider, and they may see one called Chingachgook, who is as stately as a young ash, and as tough as the hickory.”
-
Let the Huron maidens open their eyes wider, and they may see one called Chingachgook, who is as stately as a young ash, and as tough as the hickory. "
The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820
-
"Did any tongue name Chingachgook, Drooping-Lily"? for so the chief had named poor Hetty.
The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820
-
Thus served brave old Indian John as "Chingachgook"; Mr. Grant, the missionary; and "Monsieur Le Quoi," the Frenchman.
-
"Chingachgook," returned the Delaware with grave dignity.
The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820
-
They make me think of the brooding solitude of deep eternal forests, with stately Chingachgook beside the council fire ... the fragrance of the peace-pipe and the cry of the elk among snow-clad peaks ...
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
-
Given that, I didn't mind indulging her girlish fantasies with a brief tour of the wilds in a transcontinental Pullman; she could have her fill of Vast Plains and Brooding Forests from the window of a private hotel car, and never mind Chingachgook; we might stop off at some tame Indian village (one sniff of that would cure her notions), and perhaps a cattle-ranch or gold-mine.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
-
Raised by Mohicans after the death of his English parents, and more at home in the backwoods than in a Colonial settlement, he's traveling with his adoptive father, Chingachgook (Russell Means), and brother, Uncas (Eric Schweig), when he rescues two English sisters, Cora (Madeleine Stowe) and Alice (Jodhi May), from an ambush by tomahawk-wielding Hurons.
-
Where their script skimps is in the depiction of Chingachgook and Uncas: these are "the last of the Mohicans," after all, yet their crucial relationship with Hawkeye is sketchy at best.
-
“Chingachgook!” she exclaimed, recalling some childish memory.
The Years 2004
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.