sannup
nounEtymology From Penobscot senabe (“man”); compare Abenaki sanôba (“man”).
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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.
- With this company, Miantonomo and his sachems dined, while the sannups were entertained hard by, in the inn recently built by Goodman Samuel Coles.1898, Edith Robinson, A Little Puritan Rebel, L. C. Page & Company, page 117:
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- Or rather, he obliged Miguen to do so, for the limping sannup could not pursue the quarry.1941, Marguerite Allis, Not Without Peril, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 231:
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Maine, US, Colloquial A mischievous male child.