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Canuck

Pronunciation: /kəˈnʌk/

The English word “Canuck” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.
  2. A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
  3. Chiefly as Crazy Canuck: a member of the Canadian alpine ski team.
  4. A thing from Canada.
  5. The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor aircraft, in use between 1952 and 1981.
  6. A Canadian horse or pony.

proper noun

  1. Synonym of Canadian French (“the French language as spoken by Francophones in Canada”).
  2. Synonym of Canadian English (“the variety of the English language used in Canada”).

adjective

  1. Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people; Canadian.
  2. Of or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.

Etymology

Origin uncertain, often hypothesized to derive from the name or speech of an early Canadian minority, later broadened to denote all Canadians: * Since 1975, many scholars have come to think the name is from Hawaiian kanaka (“man”), a self-appellation of indentured colonial canoemen and Hawaiian sailors working off the Pacific Northwest, Arctic, and New England coasts, from French canaque…

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