chechako
Americannoun
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"I can sure read and spell, an' I know that chechako means tenderfoot, but my education never went high enough to learn me to spell a jaw-breaker like that."
From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack
I'm afraid I'm still an awful chechako about some things.
From Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
After all, you know, you are still classed as a chechako.
From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack
Wa-ha-ta-na-ta says 'all men die,'" he replied; "but—did not the chechako come into the North in the time of a great snow, and without rackets mush forty miles in two days?
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
It was rough country, it was reported, but if sour-doughs couldn't make the traverse from Larabee's in forty days they'd like to see a chechako do it in sixty.
From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack
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