Sujet : Re: Word of the day: ?Papoose?
De : jbeeson (at) *nospam* invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson)
Groupes : sci.lang alt.usage.englishDate : 06. Sep 2024, 19:42:38
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When I first heard the word "papoose" in the forties, it meant a
swaddled infant in a backpack.
So both the "child" sense and the "carrier" sense are new to me.
-- Joy Beeson, U.S.A., mostly central Hoosier, some Northern Indiana, Upstate New York, Florida, and Hawaiijoy beeson at centurylink dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/