a member of a powerful tribe of Algonquian-speaking Indians of Connecticut that was essentially destroyed in the Pequot War.
Origin: 1625–35, Americanism; < Narragansett (E sp.) Pequttôog (pl.), and the cognate in other SE New England languages, e.g., (D sp.) Pequat(s), Pequatoo(s), prob. lit., people of the shoals
A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Connecticut, with present-day descendants in the same area. The Pequot and the Mohegan were the same people until the Mohegan broke away under Uncas in the early 17th century.
A member of this people.
The Algonquian language of the Pequot, dialectally related to Mohegan and Montauk.
[pee-kwot] 
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