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pooseback en · ADV

Etymology

From papoose and back, with the form perhaps influenced by piggyback.

Meanings

  1. (US, dated, dialectal, not-comparable, possibly) piggyback
    • The hero who valiantly cudgeled his cruel Greek foes back, While safely he brought off his aged old ancestor pooseback? 1870, A free and independent translation of the first and fourth books of the Aeneid, page 10:
    • Poquannum, then, took it pooseback, and carried it rapidly fifty rods further, […] 1857, Putnam's Monthly, volume 10, page 228: