seecatch

American

[see-kach] / ˈsiˌkætʃ /

noun

the adult male of the fur seal, Callorhinus alascanus, of Alaska.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

seecatchie

plural

Etymology

Origin of seecatch

1880–85, earlier seecatchie (collective or plural) < Russian sekachí, plural of sekách mature male fur seal, hog, or wild boar, literally, chopper, cutter (alluding to the tusks of such animals), equivalent to sek-, stem of sechʾ to cut, slash + -ach noun suffix; cf. holluschick

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