unAlaskan

See also: Unalaskan

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ Alaskan.

Adjective

unAlaskan (comparative more unAlaskan, superlative most unAlaskan)

1. Not characteristic of or appropriate to Alaska.
   • 1904, Travel - Volume 6, page 347:

     Who was talking?. From where did that un-Alaskan sound proceed?

   • 1970, George W. Rogers, The Future of Alaska, page 169:

     The further fact that almost the only articulate opposition to statehood within Alaska came from representatives of or persons closely associated with absentee business interests which are the traditional betes noires in any colonial area, presented an opportunity for branding even mild questioning of the movement as "unAlaskan."

   • 1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 4:

     It was most unbushlike and positively unAlaskan.