Chaubunagungamaug
Meaning
Proper Noun
- A small lake east of Webster, Massachusetts.
Related
Similar words
- Lake Chargoggagoggmanchoggagogg
- Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug
- Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug
- Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaug
- Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
- Lake Chargoggagogmanchaugagogchaubunagungamaug
- Lake Chaugogagogmanchaugagogchaubunagungamaug
- Lake Webster, Webster Lake
Origin
- From a Nipmuck (Loup A) word, translated by Ives Goddard as "fishing place at the boundary" or "lake divided by islands".
- Chaubunagungamaug is the form used by the US government and it occurs in the earliest local records, according to Goddard. In 1921, a local fancifully enlarged the name to Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
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