Sannup
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sannup is a noun meaning (US) A male Native American, especially a married one; a brave.
Meaning
(US) A male Native American, especially a married one; a brave.
More Meanings
- (US, Maine, colloquial) A mischievous male child.
Example Sentences
Or rather, he obliged Miguen to do so, for the limping sannup could not pursue the quarry.
With this company, Miantonomo and his sachems dined, while the sannups were entertained hard by, in the inn recently built by Goodman Samuel Coles.
1736, Thomas Prince, Nathan Hale (editor), A Chronological History of New-England, in the Form of Annals, 1826, New Edition, Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, page 347, Chickatabot (the chief Sachem of the Massachusetts) comes with his sannups and squaws (that is, married men and their wives) to Boston, presents the governor with a hogshead of Indian corn.
Word Forms
- sannups
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sannop, swain, manny, babu, nannan, old man.
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