nitchie
[ nee-chee ]
/ ˈni tʃi /
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noun Chiefly Canadian Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
a contemptuous term used to refer to a North-American Indian.
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Origin of nitchie
1785–95; <Ojibwa ni·či· my friend, extracted from the phrase po·žo· ni·či· “greetings, friend!”, a common salutation among men
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Example sentences from the Web for nitchie
Siwash, and Nitchie Scott, find enemy's horses and drift them away out of reach.
A Man in the Open|Roger PocockDuncan had upbraided me for passing out my last five-dollar bill to that hungry Nitchie, but the poor woman needed it.
The Prairie Child|Arthur Stringer