Chinook Jargon

[ shi-nook-jahr-guhn, -gon, -nook, chi- ]

/ ʃɪˈnʊk ˌdʒɑr gən, -gɒn, -ˈnuk, tʃɪ- /

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noun

a pidgin based largely on Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), Lower Chinook, French, and English, once widely used as a lingua franca from Alaska to Oregon.

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Origin of Chinook Jargon

First recorded in1830–40

Words nearby Chinook Jargon

chino, chinoiserie, chinone, Chinook, Chinookan, Chinook Jargon, chinook salmon, chinos, chinquapin, chin rest, chin strap

How to use Chinook Jargon in a sentence

This is known as close air support, or CAS, in military jargon.
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The Chinook vibrated with deeper and deeper groans until its twin engines managed to heave up our dead weight.
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Baffled by the jargon-heavy consumer information manual, I chatted with Cheryl Luptowski from the NSF consumer affairs office.
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The note promised to send more pictures “like before,” and included a photograph of a Chinook helicopter unloading supplies.
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We owe it neither to the Syriac tongue nor to the Hebrew, a jargon of the Syriac, in which adultery is called niuph.
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I'm quite out of the hunt here, however, for I can't pretend to understand the jargon of the thing.
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Madame Probasco immediately transferred the glove to her forehead, and the jargon increased in rapidity.
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Why introduce an unintelligible jargon, when we may be understood by pronouncing a simple name?
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They are a people within a people, differing in dress as well as in language, which is a jargon of German-Hebrew.
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British Dictionary definitions for Chinook Jargon

Chinook Jargon

noun

a pidgin language containing elements of Native American languages, English, and French: formerly used among fur traders and Indians on the NW coast of North America

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