kabloona

[ kab-loo-nuh ]

/ kæbˈlu nə /

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noun Canadian chiefly Arctic.

a white man; a European.

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Origin of kabloona

1765–75; <Inuit qablunaaq, probably derivative of qava the South; association with qablu “eyebrow” has given rise to the spurious translation “person with big eyebrows”

Words nearby kabloona

kabbalistic, kabeljou, Kabila, Kabinett, Kabir, kabloona, kabob, ka-boom, kabuki, Kabul, Kabwe

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How to use kabloona in a sentence

He put it into my hands to repair, taking it for granted that a Kabloona would succeed much better than himself.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 (of 2)|Sir William Edward Parry

British Dictionary definitions for kabloona

Kabloona

/ (kəˈbluːnə) /

noun

(in Canada) a person who is not of Inuit ancestry, esp a White person

Word Origin for Kabloona

from Inuktitut

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