单词 | sunck |
释义 | ‖ sunck Also 7 sunke, 8 sunk. [N. American Indian; sunck squaw app. represents Natick sonksq, sonkusq queen, mistress (f. sonqhuau he overcomes, has the mastery) = Narragansett saunks, pl. sauncksquuaog (Roger Williams).] In full sunck squaw: The female chief or queen of an American Indian people.
1676Connect. Col. Rec. (1852) II. 458 That ould peice of venum, Sunck squaw Magnus. 1677Hubbard Indian Wars i. 105 The same Indians..and their Sunke Squaw, or chief Woman of that Indian Plantation. 1797J. Trumbull Hist. Connect. I. 347 The six Narraganset sachems, and the sunk squaw or old queen of Narraganset. 1804J. Haughton in Mass. Hist. Coll. IX. 83 note, Awaking one night,..and finding his sunck (queen) lying near another Indian, he..took his knife, and cut three strokes on each of her cheeks. |

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