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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dougstaples@gmx.com (LionelEdwards) Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Word of the day: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcUGFwb29zZeKAnQ==?= Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:16:54 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <60d0dc110a7caf46b88f958c869781f8@www.novabbs.com> References: <87a5gsplpx.fsf@parhasard.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="397695"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="RCtv0vBD20+/ouRI12+nk24d9y+Z94Bz5a1GbuXMba0"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$4kS.WoclSbFTBbmoqZAjVOQCT1SyC8uaZX6khnUwt7cfmV1/D6bH2 X-Rslight-Posting-User: d25cf7b1a5e17facdba0f576df80901e69e346a8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 2170 Lines: 31 On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:54:02 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote: > > I came across this word for the first time today, in the second meaning > from > Wikipedia, describing basically something to swaddle a toddler to keep > it still > for a procedure in Emergency Medicine: > > “Papoose (from the Narragansett papoos, meaning "child")[1] is an > American > English word 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.[2] In 1643, > Roger > Williams recorded the word in his A Key into the Language of America, > helping > to popularize it.[3] > [...] > Cradle boards and other child carriers used by Native Americans are > known by > various names. In Algonquin history, the term papoose is sometimes used > to > refer to a child carrier.” > > Given I am 43 and fairly well-read I can assert that it has basically no > currency outside the US. Does it have much currency within the US? Very familiar in GB from 1960s Westerns as a method by which Indians could gallop on horseback carrying their infants safely. Not to be confused with "a caboose".