XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: larry@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2024-08-31 12:54, Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
   >   
   > I came across this word for the first time today, in the second meaning from   
   > Wikipedia, describing basically something to swaddle a toddler to keep it   
   still   
   > for a procedure in Emergency Medicine:   
   >   
   > “Papoose (from the Narragansett papoos, meaning "child")[1] is an American   
   > English word whose present meaning is "a Native American child" (regardless   
   of   
   > tribe) or, even more generally, any child, usually used as a term of   
   > endearment, often in the context of the child's mother.[2] In 1643, Roger   
   > Williams recorded the word in his A Key into the Language of America, helping   
   > to popularize it.[3]   
   > [...]   
   > Cradle boards and other child carriers used by Native Americans are known by   
   > various names. In Algonquin history, the term papoose is sometimes used to   
   > refer to a child carrier.”   
   >   
   > Given I am 43 and fairly well-read I can assert that it has basically no   
   > currency outside the US. Does it have much currency within the US?   
      
   I was somewhat befuddled when I first heard someone call the child a   
   'papoose', as I had always  heard it in reference to a child carrier.   
      
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