aborgoin

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8

Definition of aborgoin

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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 bottle […].”
    “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.”
    “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."”
    ““I remember you could stand on Congress and hear billiards in one ear and whoopin' aborgoins out the other.””

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Etymology

Dialectal pronunciation of aborigine.

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