kabloona

[kab-loo-nuh]

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noun Canadian chiefly Arctic.

a white man; a European.

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”

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Historical Examples

He put it into my hands to repair, taking it for granted that a Kabloona would succeed much better than himself.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 (of 2)
Sir William Edward Parry

British Dictionary definitions for kabloona

Kabloona

noun

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

Word Origin

from Inuktitut

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