cheechako
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Chinook Jargon cheechako.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cheechako (plural cheechakos or cheechakoes)
- Someone new to Alaska or the Yukon; originally, a gold rush newcomer.
- 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 41:
- And now this blonde, from Outside no loess, the rawest of cheechakos, the most innocent of Alaskan naifs, a literal babe in the woods, had asked a few simple questions and gotten the whole story, all of it, simply and succinctly and more, gotten it without attitude or resentment.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “cheechako”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ The Alaska Almanac: facts about Alaska (Alaska Northwest Publishing, 1989), page 23
Chinook Jargon
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Chinook čxi (“straightaway”) + Nootka čokwaa (“come!”).
Noun
[edit]cheechako
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