kabloona
[ kab-loo-nuh ]
/ kæbˈlu nə /
noun Canadian chiefly Arctic.
a white man; a European.
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
Example sentences from the Web for kabloona
He put it into my hands to repair, taking it for granted that a Kabloona would succeed much better than himself.
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