aborgoin

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word aborgoin. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word aborgoin, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say aborgoin in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word aborgoin you have here. The definition of the word aborgoin will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofaborgoin, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Dialectal pronunciation of aborigine.

Noun

aborgoin (plural aborgoins)

  1. (US, dialectal, rare) An aboriginal inhabitant; a Native American.
    • 1841, William Lyle Keys, Gleanings, page 33:
      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 bottle […].
    • 1858 March 10, The Raftsman's Journal, Pennsylvania, page 4:
      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.
    • 1916, Concordia Empire (Kansas), 2 March, p. 7:
      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."
    • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 412:
      “I remember you could stand on Congress and hear billiards in one ear and whoopin' aborgoins out the other.”

Anagrams

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia