Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A married Native American man.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Among the American Indians, a married male member of the community; the husband of a squaw.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A married male Indian; a brave; -- correlative of squaw.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
male Native American , especially amarried one; abrave .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a married male American Indian
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Of Massachusett origin.]
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From Penobscot senabe ("man"), compare Abenaki sanôba ("man").
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Examples
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The sannup and the squaw do not get drunk at the same time.
Local authors 2005
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The sannup and the squaw do not get drunk at the same time.
Lance Mannion: 2005
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Some of them are of Maine origin and have never had occasion to escape to other parts of the country -- sannup, let's say, from Abnaki Indian, "loosely used throughout Maine for a boy-child and usually a mischievous one," coodle, ` a small cove or backwater. '
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