sannup
English
Etymology
From Penobscot senabe (“man”); compare Abenaki sanôba (“man”).
Noun
sannup (plural sannups)
- (US) A male Native American, especially a married one; a brave.
- 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.
- 1898, Edith Robinson, A Little Puritan Rebel, L. C. Page & Company, page 117,
- With this company, Miantonomo and his sachems dined, while the sannups were entertained hard by, in the inn recently built by Goodman Samuel Coles.
- 1941, Marguerite Allis, Not Without Peril, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 231,
- Or rather, he obliged Miguen to do so, for the limping sannup could not pursue the quarry.
- 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,
- (US, Maine, colloquial) A mischievous male child.[1]
See also
References
- “sannup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ 1975, John Gould, Lillian Ross, Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads & Wazzats, page 241—Sannup From Abnaki Indian, loosely used throughout Maine for a boy-child and usually a mischievous one: "You sannup, you! Stop plaguing that poor cat!" The real sannup was an unfledged warrior, perhaps a junior sachem.