aborgoin

English

Alternative forms

• abergoin

Etymology

Dialectal pronunciation of aborigine.

Noun

aborgoin (plural aborgoins)

1. (US, dialectal, rare) An aboriginal inhabitant; a Native American.
   • 1841, William Lyle Keys, Gleanings, page 33:

     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 […].

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

     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.

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

     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."

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

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

Anagrams

• bigaroon, bioorgan