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cheechako

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Chinook Jargon cheechako.

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Noun

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cheechako (plural cheechakos or cheechakoes)

  1. 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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  1. ^ “cheechako”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ^ The Alaska Almanac: facts about Alaska (Alaska Northwest Publishing, 1989), page 23

Chinook Jargon

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Etymology

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From Chinook čxi (“straightaway”) +‎ Nootka čokwaa (“come!”).

Noun

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cheechako

  1. newcomer, stranger
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