kabloona

[ kab-loo-nuh ]

nounCanadian chiefly Arctic.
  1. a white man; a European.

Origin of kabloona

1
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”

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Kabloona

/ (kəˈbluːnə) /


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

Origin of Kabloona

1
from Inuktitut

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