kabloona
[ kab-loo-nuh ]
nounCanadian chiefly Arctic.
a white man; a European.
Origin of kabloona
11765–75; <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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How to use kabloona in a sentence
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
Origin of Kabloona
1from Inuktitut
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