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kookum

kookum noun: grandmother (among the Cree people).

Noun

kookum (plural kookums)

  1. grandmother (among the Cree people)
    • My Kookum was a storyteller and all the stories she told were told in Cree.2014, Neal McLeod, Indigenous Poetics in Canada, page 18

Forms of kookum

pluralkookums

Origin of kookum

From Cree [Term?].

Questions about kookum

What does kookum mean?
Kookum means grandmother (among the Cree people).
What part of speech is kookum?
Kookum is a noun.
What is the plural of kookum?
The plural of kookum is kookums.

Words near kookum in the dictionary

  1. kookri
  2. kookries
  3. kookris
  4. kookry
  5. kooks
  6. kookum
  7. kookums
  8. kooky
  9. kool
  10. kool-aid
  11. Kool-Aid smile

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