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‖ sarigue|sarig| Also 7–8 sarigoy, 9 (Dict.) saragoy, 8 cerigo, -gon. [Fr. (Buffon), a. Pg. sarigué, in 16th c. çarigué, cerigoé, serigoé (whence the earlier forms); used erron. for Brazilian sarigueya, a derivative of Sarigué, which is the name of an Indian people. Several other forms of the word are quoted by Ray Syn. Quad., 1693, Pennant Hist. Quad., 1781, and Smellie tr. Buffon's Nat. Hist. 1780–5.] A South American opossum, Didelphys opossum.
1683Tyson in Phil. Trans. XIII. 379, I am apt to think 'twas by removing these Scent-bags rather then taking out the Kidneys; that they made the Sarigoy edible. 1828–32Webster, Saragoy, the opossum of the Molucca Isles. 1847Ibid., Sarigue. [And in later Dicts.] |