Sauks

Variant of Sauk

Sauk definition

Sauk (sôk)

noun pl. Sauks or Sauk

  1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in the area of modern Green Bay, Wisconsin, and later on reservations in Oklahoma and Kansas
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Etymology: earlier Saukee < Fr Saki, Ousaki < Ojibwa ozaagii, lit., person (or people) of the outlet

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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