saltchuck
See also: salt chuck
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Chinook Jargon saltchuck (“the sea”, literally “saltwater”), from salt (“salt”) (from English salt) + chuck (“water”) from Nootka č̕aʔak (“water”).[1]
Noun edit
saltchuck (plural saltchucks)
- (British Columbia, Washington, Northwestern US) Any body of saltwater, especially the ocean.
- 2002, Harvey Manning, Penny Manning, Ira Spring, Winter Walks and Hikes: Puget Sound, page 155:
- The ultimate consensus was to keep the de-Whited river Green to its Tukwila junction with the Black, the outlet of Lake Washington, then make it Duwamish the rest of the way to the saltchuck.
- 2011, Betty Keller, Rosella Leslie, Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits: A History of the Sunshine Coast, page 130:
- Trucks disappeared over precipices, rail cars were shunted into the saltchuck, and donkey engines collapsed from old age. […] However, if it was abandoned anywhere near the saltchuck, it was probably picked up by one of the entrepreneurs […]
Derived terms edit
- chuck (in its sense "body of water")
References edit
- ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “saltchuck”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.