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klooch N.W. Amer.|kluːtʃ|
Also klootch.
[Chinook Jargon (from Nootka) klootchman woman.]
An Indian woman. Also (variously spelt) ˈkloochman.
Quot. 1861 illustrates the erroneous form kloochwoman.
1837H. Beaver Let. 10 Mar. (1959) 38 ‘Klout-che-man’ is the term used to express the whole female sex, in whatever degree of relationship, whether rational or irrational. 1860Brit. Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 24 Mar. 2/3 About 75 Cape Flattery Indians arrived in canoes yesterday..on a visit to the Songish tribe, for the purpose of buying a clootchman for their chief. 1861in C. Maiden Lighted Journey: Story of B.C. Electric (1948) 1, I perceived two clootch-vimmen a' standin' outside of a 'ouse, and they was a-laughing at me. 1865G. Stuart Montana as it Is 83 Oregon is the place to hear the ‘Chinnook’ in all its glory; it has ‘played’ the English language ‘square out’ in that land of..‘cloockmans’ and camus. 1897M. H. E. Hayne Pioneers of Klondyke 25 The klūtch (short for klūtchman, the local name for squaws) dress exactly like the men. 1901Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Oct. 3/1 Old klootchmen were to be seen with their arms filled with all kinds of goods. 1907R. Dunn Shameless Diary of Explorer iv. 28 Starved dogs, half-naked children, shawled klootches, bucks in prospectors' old clothes, all gathered, stared, shook hands, clucked questions. 1945R. W. Service Ploughman of Moon 176 In the old days he had taken up with a klootchman, and had written home, saying he was married to an Indian Princess. Ibid., On one side of me I had a klootch with a papoose tied to her back. 1956Beaver Summer 44 The Indians had respected the promises of the Great White Queen—or as she was known—‘King George's Klootchman’—and they relied upon the word of the Hudson's Bay Company. 1966H. Marriott Cariboo Cowboy vi. 58 An Indian ‘klootch’ with three kids playing around the tent. 1969Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 31 Aug. 10/2 Jenny, a Klootchman as Indian women were called, washed, ironed, sewed on buttons and mended. |