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pooseback

pooseback adverb: piggyback.

Adverb

pooseback (not comparable)

  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

Origin of pooseback

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

Questions about pooseback

What does pooseback mean?
Pooseback means piggyback.
What part of speech is pooseback?
Pooseback is an adverb.

Words near pooseback in the dictionary

  1. poort
  2. poorts
  3. poorwill
  4. poorwills
  5. poos
  6. pooseback
  7. poosplosion
  8. poosplosions
  9. poot
  10. pootang
  11. pooted

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