Papoose

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pa=poose

CIDE DICTIONARY

Papoose, n. 

 A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Papoose, n. a N. American Indian young child.

Etymology

Algonquin

THESAURUS

Papoose

babe, baby, baby bunting, bambino, incubator baby, infant, little angel, little darling, mewling infant, neonate, nursling, preemie, premature baby, preschooler, puling infant, suckling, toddler, weanling, yearling

ROGET THESAURUS

Papoose

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.