Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dish consisting of Indian meal boiled in water, usually eaten with milk: often called
mush .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Local, U.S. Boiled Indian meal; hasty pudding; mush.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
suppawn .
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Examples
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Native American languages: netop, sagamore, supawn
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In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms Henry Louis 1921
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From them we have hominy, pone, supawn, and succotash.
The Hoosier Schoolmaster Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 1871
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From them we have _hominy_, _pone_, _supawn_, and _succotash_.
The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Edward Eggleston 1869
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