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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
papoose
noun
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▪ There was a six month old baby en papoose on board.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Papoose

Papoose \Pa*poose"\, n. A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
papoose

1630s, from Narragansett papoos "child," or a similar New England Algonquian word; said to mean literally "very young."

Wiktionary
papoose

n. 1 baby 2 (context UK English) backpack

WordNet
papoose

n. an American Indian infant [syn: pappoose]

Wikipedia
Papoose

A papoose (from the Algonquian papoos, meaning "child") is an American English loanword whose present meaning is "a Native American child" (regardless of tribe) or, even more generally, any child, usually used as a term of endearment, often in the context of the child's mother. The word came originally from the Narragansett tribe. In 1643, Roger Williams recorded the word in his A Key Into the Language of America, helping to popularize it.

Papoose (rapper)

Shamele Mackie (born March 5, 1978), better known by his stage name Papoose , is an American rapper and songwriter. After breaking into the rap game in 2005 with DJ Kayslay with the release of his song "Alphabetical Slaughter" he signed a $1.5 million contract with Jive Records. After his debut studio album, The Nacirema Dream was shelved, he cut ties with Jive. This resulted in him releasing over a dozen free mixtapes to keep himself popular. In 2012 he secured a deal with Fontana Distribution and released his debut album independently on March 26, 2013.

Papoose (disambiguation)

A papoose is a Native American child.

Papoose may also refer to:

  • Papoose (rapper), an American rapper
  • Cradle board, a type of child carrier
  • Papoose (tanker), an American ship launched in 1921
  • Marlin Model 70P, a portable semi-automatic .22 rifle, known as the Marlin "Papoose"
  • Papoose, a type of small guitar
  • Papoose on the loose, a cartoon by Walter Lantz
  • Piper PA-29 Papoose, a single engine light airplane produced by Piper Aircraft. Only one built.

Usage examples of "papoose".

Navaho squaw and one papoose or more, and sometimes the beehive-shaped hodags in which the Navahos wintered.

Papoose followed the paint-horse as Harris put Calico down the slippery sidehill and lifted him round the point of the herd.

One day, when he woke up, everyone was clambering into their translucent pressure suits: men, women, children, even infants in little sacklike papooses.

Apparently the deal was that one of the bettors that bet with Sorkin through Fackelmann was a guy Gately and Fackelmann know only as Eighties Bill, an impeccably groomed guy that wore red suspenders under snazzy Zegna-brand menswear and tortoiseshell specs and Docksiders, an old-fashioned corporate take-overer and asset-plunderer, maybe fifty, with an Exchange Place office and a souvenir FREE MILKEN bumper sticker on his Beamer it was a night of many highballs and much papoosing, and Gately had to keep flicking the top of P.

A series of thick-walled adobe structures were connected by low-ceilinged breezeways, in the middle of which existed the beautiful courtyard that came complete with palm trees, bubbling fountain, and a bronze statue of Father Serra with these women – your stereotypical Indian squaws, complete with papooses strapped to their backs – kneeling at his feet.

Nanny tends to little Nessa, papoosing her around in the daily hunt for charfish, needle flowers, and broad bean vines.

The infant was propped upright on his papoose board so he could watch the marine scene, and Marc lay flat on his back, idly studying the small cumulus clouds overhead and seeing if he could influence their chang­.

Now, as I strapped the baby down on a papoose board, I saw in his desperate face that of an old man, bald, tormented at being strapped down into a nursing home bed, both faces at once.

Kris started the fad of the papoose board, dredging that up from reading Westerns and historical novels about Indians.

She reached her hand under the blanket they lay on and withdrew the papoose board she'd hidden under it.

Again, Janeway was reminded of a frontier town--or perhaps an early American Indian village, she reflected, as she watched a woman pass by carrying a baby on her back in what could easily have passed for a papoose board.