noun1. Word forms: plural -quins, -quin, -kins or -kin a member of an indigenous North American people formerly living along the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada
2. the language of this people, a dialect of Ojibwa
noun, adjective3. a variant of Algonquian
Word origin
C17: from Canadian French, earlier written as
Algoumequin; perhaps related to Micmac
algoomaking at the fish-spearing place