pooseback

adv

pooseback

adv

Etymology From papoose and back, with the form perhaps influenced by piggyback.

1

US, Dated, Dialectal, Possibly piggyback

  • Poquannum, then, took it pooseback, and carried it rapidly fifty rods further, […]1857, Putnam's Monthly, volume 10, page 228:
  • The hero who valiantly cudgeled his cruel Greek foes back, While safely he brought off his aged old ancestor pooseback?1870, A free and independent translation of the first and fourth books of the Aeneid, page 10:

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