sannupとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sannup (複数形 sannups)

1. (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 かつ their wives) to Boston, presents the governor with a hogshead of Indian corn.

   • 1898, Edith Robinson, A Little Puritan Rebel, L. C. Page & Company, page 117,

     With this company, Miantonomo and his sachems dined, while the sannups were entertained hard by, in the inn recently built by Goodman Samuel Coles.

   • 1941, Marguerite Allis, Not Without Peril, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 231,

     Or rather, he obliged Miguen to do so, for the limping sannup could not pursue the quarry.

2. (US, Maine, colloquial) A mischievous male child.^[1]

参考

• sachem
• squaw

参照

• sannup in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.