aborgoin

plural aborgoins · alternative abergoin

1. USdialectalrareAn aboriginal inhabitant; a Native American.

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

   2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 412

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   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 […].

   1841, William Lyle Keys, Gleanings, page 33

   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.

   1858 March 10, The Raftsman's Journal, Pennsylvania, page 4

   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."

   1916, Concordia Empire (Kansas), 2 March, p. 7