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cheechako

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Chinook Jargon cheechakobor.
English cheechako

    Borrowed from Chinook Jargon cheechako.

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    cheechako (plural cheechakos or cheechakoes)

    1. Someone new to Alaska or the Yukon; originally, a gold rush newcomer.
      • 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 41:
        And now this blonde, from Outside no loess, the rawest of cheechakos, the most innocent of Alaskan naifs, a literal babe in the woods, had asked a few simple questions and gotten the whole story, all of it, simply and succinctly and more, gotten it without attitude or resentment.

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    1. ^ “cheechako”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
    2. ^ The Alaska Almanac: facts about Alaska (Alaska Northwest Publishing, 1989), page 23

    Chinook Jargon

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    From Chinook čxi (“straightaway”) +‎ Nootka čokwaa (“come!”).

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    cheechako

    1. newcomer, stranger
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