kabloona
See also: Kabloona
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallunaaq, “foreigner”) or Greenlandic kablunâk (“white person, Dane”) (now spelled qallunaaq), or a combination of the two.
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kabloona (plural kabloonas or kabloona or kabloonat)
- (Canada, US) A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
- 2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror: A Novel:
- After food and pleasantries had been exchanged, the old man asked what they were doing so far from the God-Walking People's northern lands, and when one of the hunters explained that they were looking for living or dead kabloona […]
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non-Inuit person
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