Definitions for papooses

papooses pa·poose

Spelling: [pa-poos, puh-]
IPA: /pæˈpus, pə-/

Papooses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in papooses (aeooppss).

Definitions for papooses

noun

  1. a North American Indian baby or young child.

Origin of papooses

1625-35, Americanism; Narragansett (E spelling) papoòs baby, or Massachusett (E spelling) pappouse

Examples for papooses

How the white traders would laugh at them, and call them papooses.

Women were sitting on the floor, some with papooses strapped to their backs.

Russian babies are usually swaddled tightly, like American papooses.

He hear water-spirits say to Mighty Hand that they have papooses.

“The papooses of the Indian make the white man happy,” he said simply.

We'll make a lot of those Indians wish that they had stayed at home with their papooses.

Women sat on the floor, papooses on their backs, beadwork in hand.

The warriors hunt; the cihuatls prepare the food, and nurse the papooses.

Martin had three papooses (as the Indians call the children) by the Strawberry.

It would gladden the eyes of the pale-faces to see their papooses by another sun?

Word Value for papooses
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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