sagoin
(səˈgɔɪn)
Forms: 7–9 sagouin, (8 sangwyn), 9 (in Dicts.) saguin, 7– sagoin.
[a. F. sagouin, † sagoin, a. Pg. saguim, a. Guarani sagui, {cced}agui (= Tupi sahy: see sai1), whence by misreading the synonym cagui.]
A small South American monkey, esp. one of the genus Callithrix.
| 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 18 This figure of the Sagoin, I receiued of..a very learned Apothecary of Antwerpe. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 838 A kind of Monkey called Sagouin. 1704 Nieuhof's East Indies in Churchill's Voy. II. 362 Those [monkeys] called sangwyns. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 235 Those [monkeys] with muscular holding tails, are called Sapajous; those with feeble, useless tails, are called Sagoins. 1840 Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 62 The Masked Sagouin (Callithrix personata, Geof.), the Widow Sagouin (C. lugens, Humb.). 1852 Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. viii. 279 They never play like the young sagoins. |