jackatar

[jak-uh-tahr]

jack·a·tar

[jak-uh-tahr]
noun Newfoundland.
a Newfoundland native of mixed French and Amerindian descent.


Origin:
1855–60; perhaps jack-tar (with -a- representing release of the stop) though the change in sense is unaccounted for
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