Kanuck

Noun

Canuck (plural Canucks)

1. (Canada, US, derogatory, informal, sometimes) A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.
   • Canadians are somewhat jealous of the Americans; that they are secretly manœuvering, not exactly with the inoffensive good humor of a much respected yeoman of England, […] but rather after the inordinate example of Ahab of old, so pithily recorded by the sacred historian. Jonathan distinguishes a...[1835, [Henry Cook Todd], Notes upon Canada and the United States of America: In the Year MDCCCXXXV […], Toronto, Ont.: […] W[illiam] J[oseph] Coates, […], →OCLC, paragraph 263, page 92

   Synonyms:

   Canadian, Canajan, Canajun, Johnny Canuck, hoser

   1. (Canada, US, derogatory, informal, sometimes) A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
   2. (Canada, US, derogatory, informal, sometimes) Chiefly as Crazy Canuck: a member of the Canadian alpine ski team.
2. (rare) A thing from Canada.
   • Wha'll buy my caller herrin'? / Cod, turbot, ling, delicious farin', / Buy my caller herrin', / They're every one Kanucks!1887 February 19, “Caller Herrin’. As Sung by a New Haven, N.S., Fishwife. (An American edition—copyrighted too.)”, in J[ohn] W[ilson] Bengough, editor, Grip. An Independent Journal of Humor and...
   1. (historical, rare) The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor aircraft, in use between 1952 and 1981.
   2. (US, obsolete, rare) A Canadian horse or pony.
      • I'll sit here and blow till he comes round with his old go-cart, and then I'll hang on to the tail of it, and try legs with that little Kanuck of his.1860, J[osiah] G[ilbert] Holland, “Miss Gilbert Visits the Sky, and Little Venus Takes up Her Permanent Residence there”, in Miss Gilbert’s Career: An American Story, New York, N.Y.: Charles...

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