nanook

/ ˈnænuːk /

noun

1. the polar bear

Word History and Origins

Origin of nanook¹

from Inuktitut nanug

Example Sentences

I called to Nanook as we stopped on the bank, "Nanook, there's the good old Yukon again!"

From Project Gutenberg

But it is at such times, too, that one appreciates at his full value such a noble puller as our wheel dog Nanook.

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I could almost tell the nature of any disturbance that arose from the tone of Nanook's bark.

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As I reckoned it up, Nanook had fallen just short of pulling my sled ten thousand miles.

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I loved Nanook, and had lost something personal out of my life in losing him.

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