mukluk
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EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Central Siberian Yupik [script needed] (maklak, “bearded seal”), referring to sealskin used to make boots.
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mukluk (plural mukluks)
- (Canada, US) A soft knee-high boot of sealskin or reindeer skin, originally worn by Inuit and Yupik.
- 1898, Medicine Hat News, December 8, p 5:
- Her parkee, made of Caribou, it is a lovely fit, / And she's all right from muck-a-luck unto her dainty mit. / This lovely Klooch is fond of Hooch, and makes it very well.
- 1898, Medicine Hat News, December 8, p 5:
- (Canada, US) A laced winter boot resembling a traditional mukluk, with thick rubber sole and cloth upper.
- 1966, Kingston Whig-Standard, April 27, p 26:
- [...] the Canadians’ [soldiers’] mukluks and sleeping bags were superior to anything in use. the mukluk, a rubber-soled boot with a calf-high outer nylon cover, has a thick woollen inner boot that keeps feet warm in the coldest of weather.
- 2004, Paola Gianturco, Celebrating Women:
- The skin is used to make mukluks, hats, parkas. We are resourceful and respectful of the animals, the land.
- 1966, Kingston Whig-Standard, April 27, p 26:
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- “mukluk” in the Katherine Barker, editor, Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edition, Don Mills, Ont.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, →ISBN.
- “mukluk” in the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, W.J. Gage, 1967.
- “mukluk”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.