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aborgoin

aborgoin noun: an aboriginal inhabitant; a Native American.

Noun

aborgoin (plural aborgoins)

  1. (US, dialectal, rare) An aboriginal inhabitant; a Native American.
    • A certain Mr. E., in early times in Ohio, who was very fond of the corn, as the Buckeyes call whiskey, took a notion to get married; and as the beverage in question was indispensable at all such gatherings of the aborgoins, in those days, the happy bridegroom could not resist his appetite for the...1841, William Lyle Keys, Gleanings, page 33
    • To Curwensville they hie them on frolic they are bent
      And there indulge in all the sports the season can invent;
      The "Aborgoins" are thunderstruck to see them cut up so,
      And vow there's inspiration In this riding on the snow.1858 March 10, The Raftsman's Journal, Pennsylvania, page 4

Examples of aborgoin in a sentence

  • And I may add that the severest critic of newspapers I ever met punctuated like a walking plow, pronounced "unique"' like it Is spelled, and referred to aboriginies as "aborgoins."1916, Concordia Empire (Kansas), 2 March, p. 7
  • “I remember you could stand on Congress and hear billiards in one ear and whoopin' aborgoins out the other.”2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 412:

Forms of aborgoin

pluralaborgoins
alternative formabergoin

Origin of aborgoin

Dialectal pronunciation of aborigine.

Questions about aborgoin

What does aborgoin mean?
Aborgoin means an aboriginal inhabitant; a Native American.
How do you use aborgoin in a sentence?
And I may add that the severest critic of newspapers I ever met punctuated like a walking plow, pronounced "unique"' like it Is spelled, and referred to aboriginies as "aborgoins."
What part of speech is aborgoin?
Aborgoin is a noun.
What is the plural of aborgoin?
The plural of aborgoin is aborgoins.

Words near aborgoin in the dictionary

  1. aborded
  2. abording
  3. abords
  4. abore
  5. aboreal
  6. aborgoin
  7. aborgoins
  8. aboricultural
  9. aboriculturist
  10. aboriculturists
  11. aborigen

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