pocosinn.

Brit.

/pəˈkəʊsɪn/, U.S.

/pəˈkoʊs(ə)n/

Forms: 1600s pecosan, 1600s pocosen, 1600s 1800s– poquoson, 1600s 1900s poquosin, 1600s– pocoson, 1700s pacosen, 1700s percoarson, 1700s poccoson, 1700s pocosson, 1700s 1900s– perkoson, 1700s– pocosin, 1800s pawquoson, 1800s percosan, 1800s pocasan, 1800s poccosin, 1900s– percossin, 1900s– poaquesson, 1900s– pocosan, 1900s– pocoshun.

Origin: A borrowing from Algonquian.

Etymology: < an unattested Algonquian word.The analysis is unknown; there are many initial elements in related languages having the general shape required, but none commends itself semantically. Compare the following slightly earlier use as the name of a river in Virginia:1631 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 296/2 A river called the Pocoson river.

Chiefly U.S. regional (southern).

In the south-eastern United States: a marsh, a swamp; esp. an area of low, swampy, wooded ground in an upland coastal region.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]

marsheOE

fenc888

sladec893

moorOE

mossOE

marshlandlOE

lay-fena1225

lay-mirea1225

moor-fenc1275

flosha1300

strother?a1300

marish1327

carrc1330

waterlanda1382

gaseync1400

quaba1425

paludec1425

mersec1440

sumpa1450

palus?1473

wash1483

morass1489

oozea1500

bog?a1513

danka1522

fell1538

soga1552

Camarine1576

gog1583

swale1584

sink1594

haga1600

mere1609

flata1616

swamp1624

pocosin1634

frogland1651

slash1652

poldera1669

savannah1671

pond-land1686

red bog1686

swang1691

slack1719

flowa1740

wetland1743

purgatory1760

curragh1780

squall1784

marais1793

vlei1793

muskeg1806

bog-pit1820

prairie1820

fenhood1834

pakihi1851

terai1852

sponge1856

takyr1864

boglet1869

sinkhole1885

grimpen1902

sphagnum bog1911

blanket bog1939

string bog1959

1634 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 296/2 From that runn along the side of the Pocoson or great Otter pond soe called.

1681 in Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 504 74 perches to a Corner marked spannish oake standing neare a pocosen.

1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 26 The Swamp I now spoke of, is not a miry Bog,..but you go down to it thro' a steep Bank, at the Foot of which, begins this Valley... The Land in this Percoarson, or Valley, being extraordinary rich, and the Runs of Water well stor'd with Fowl.

1711 in Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1897) July 9 The rest carried the horses 3 mile through a terribly myery Pocoson to a verry great marsh to a River side.

1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. 106 Rode along upon a wooden causeway, through a marsh, which is here [i.e. in North Carolina] called a poccoson.

1875 W. C. Kerr Rep. Geol. Surv. N. Carolina I. 15 There is a large aggregate of territory (between 3,000 and 4,000 square miles), mostly in the counties bordering on the seas and the sounds, known as Swamp Lands. They are locally designated as ‘dismals’ or ‘pocosins’, of which the great Dismal Swamp on the borders of North Carolina and Virginia is a good type.

1895 Educat. Rev. Nov. 358 The various stages of sound, lagoon, salt marsh, and pocoson are too familiar.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Feb. 10/6 In the Carolinas there are 3,000 shallow pits, unique features of the landscape, which the Carolinians call ‘savannas’, ‘pocosins’ or ‘bays’.

1949 Highway Traveller Feb. 33/1 First blossoms appear in January in the coastal pocosin country with flowering of camellias and azaleas at Orton and Airlie Gardens.

1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 338/1 Pocosins and coastal swamps are being transformed into pine plantations.

2003 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 9 Nov. (Final ed.) d1 Seasonal wetlands include pine flatwoods, pocosins and Carolina bays.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pocosin
释义	pocosinn. Brit. /pəˈkəʊsɪn/, U.S. /pəˈkoʊs(ə)n/ Forms: 1600s pecosan, 1600s pocosen, 1600s 1800s– poquoson, 1600s 1900s poquosin, 1600s– pocoson, 1700s pacosen, 1700s percoarson, 1700s poccoson, 1700s pocosson, 1700s 1900s– perkoson, 1700s– pocosin, 1800s pawquoson, 1800s percosan, 1800s pocasan, 1800s poccosin, 1900s– percossin, 1900s– poaquesson, 1900s– pocosan, 1900s– pocoshun. Origin: A borrowing from Algonquian. Etymology: < an unattested Algonquian word.The analysis is unknown; there are many initial elements in related languages having the general shape required, but none commends itself semantically. Compare the following slightly earlier use as the name of a river in Virginia:1631 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 296/2 A river called the Pocoson river. Chiefly U.S. regional (southern). In the south-eastern United States: a marsh, a swamp; esp. an area of low, swampy, wooded ground in an upland coastal region. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] marsheOE fenc888 sladec893 moorOE mossOE marshlandlOE lay-fena1225 lay-mirea1225 moor-fenc1275 flosha1300 strother?a1300 marish1327 carrc1330 waterlanda1382 gaseync1400 quaba1425 paludec1425 mersec1440 sumpa1450 palus?1473 wash1483 morass1489 oozea1500 bog?a1513 danka1522 fell1538 soga1552 Camarine1576 gog1583 swale1584 sink1594 haga1600 mere1609 flata1616 swamp1624 pocosin1634 frogland1651 slash1652 poldera1669 savannah1671 pond-land1686 red bog1686 swang1691 slack1719 flowa1740 wetland1743 purgatory1760 curragh1780 squall1784 marais1793 vlei1793 muskeg1806 bog-pit1820 prairie1820 fenhood1834 pakihi1851 terai1852 sponge1856 takyr1864 boglet1869 sinkhole1885 grimpen1902 sphagnum bog1911 blanket bog1939 string bog1959 1634 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 296/2 From that runn along the side of the Pocoson or great Otter pond soe called. 1681 in Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 504 74 perches to a Corner marked spannish oake standing neare a pocosen. 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 26 The Swamp I now spoke of, is not a miry Bog,..but you go down to it thro' a steep Bank, at the Foot of which, begins this Valley... The Land in this Percoarson, or Valley, being extraordinary rich, and the Runs of Water well stor'd with Fowl. 1711 in Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1897) July 9 The rest carried the horses 3 mile through a terribly myery Pocoson to a verry great marsh to a River side. 1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. 106 Rode along upon a wooden causeway, through a marsh, which is here [i.e. in North Carolina] called a poccoson. 1875 W. C. Kerr Rep. Geol. Surv. N. Carolina I. 15 There is a large aggregate of territory (between 3,000 and 4,000 square miles), mostly in the counties bordering on the seas and the sounds, known as Swamp Lands. They are locally designated as ‘dismals’ or ‘pocosins’, of which the great Dismal Swamp on the borders of North Carolina and Virginia is a good type. 1895 Educat. Rev. Nov. 358 The various stages of sound, lagoon, salt marsh, and pocoson are too familiar. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Feb. 10/6 In the Carolinas there are 3,000 shallow pits, unique features of the landscape, which the Carolinians call ‘savannas’, ‘pocosins’ or ‘bays’. 1949 Highway Traveller Feb. 33/1 First blossoms appear in January in the coastal pocosin country with flowering of camellias and azaleas at Orton and Airlie Gardens. 1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 338/1 Pocosins and coastal swamps are being transformed into pine plantations. 2003 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 9 Nov. (Final ed.) d1 Seasonal wetlands include pine flatwoods, pocosins and Carolina bays. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1634
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