subs. (colloquial).—A child; a KID (q.v.). [Of Indian origin.]
1634. W. WOOD, New England’s Prospect, 96. This little PAPPOUSE travells about with his bare footed mother to paddle in the Icie Clammbankes.
1677. MATHER, New England (1864), 197. To make the English believe those base PAPOOSES were of royal Progeny.
1683. ROGER WILLIAMS [BARTLETT]. PAPOOSE … among the native Indians of New England, a babe or young child.
1841. E. G. PAIGE (‘Dow, Jr.’), Short Patent Sermons, viii. Where the Indian squaw hung her young PAPPOOSE upon the bough and left it to squall at the hush-a-by of the blast, the anglo-saxon mother now rocks the cradle of her delicate babe on the carpet of peace, in the gay parlor of fashion.
