Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place in Dukes County, Mass., from a native New England Algonquian language, literally "island adjacent to the mainland."
Usage examples of "chappaquiddick".
American Employment Program, which in 1999 sponsored a presentation by storyteller Penny Gamble Williams, the tribal chief of the Chappaquiddick Indian Nation of the Wampanoag Indian Nation, relating tales passed down through the generations.
Water , a modern re-creation of the Chappaquiddick incident with a Kelly instead of Mary Jo.
Jesse Helms could have remained in the United States Senate if he had killed a girl at Chappaquiddick like Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy.
Last night she had been in the middle of Joyce Carol Oates'Black Water , a modern re-creation of the Chappaquiddick incident with a Kelly instead of Mary Jo.
He'd been out on Chappaquiddick digging a septic system for a beach house and couldn't get back to Edgartown until after four.
This will be more excitement than they've seen since all those rubbers washed up on the beach at Chappaquiddick Island.