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• kabloona
  kabloona

  noun

  a white man; a European.
• Kabloona
  Kabloona

  noun

  (in Canada) a person who is not of Inuit ancestry, esp a White person

kabloona

American  

[kab-loo-nuh] / kæbˈlu nə /

noun

Canadian chiefly Arctic.

1. a white man; a European.

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Kabloona British  

/ kəˈbluːnə /

noun

1. (in Canada) a person who is not of Inuit ancestry, esp a White person

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Etymology

Origin of kabloona

1765–75; < Inuit qablunaaq, probably derivative of qava the South; association with qablu “eyebrow” has given rise to the spurious translation “person with big eyebrows”