Mingo
noun
a member of any of certain Iroquois groups or peoples.
Mingos
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pluralof Mingo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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What shall we do with the Mingos at the door?
From The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
McKee says that there were at first "upwards of three hundred Hurons and Lake Indians," besides the rangers and a very few Mingos, Delawares, and Shawnees.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt
Here I am, Mingos," he said, in the dialect of the Delawares, a language that most present understood; "here I am, and there is the sun.
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
Stop paddling—or, rather, that the Mingos needn't think we are plotting and contriving, and so treat us accordingly, just dip your paddle lightly, and give the canoe a little motion and no more.
From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingos, that can cheat me.
From History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
