Canuckn.adj.
/kəˈnʌk/, U.S. /kəˈnək/ colloquial.
A. n.
1. A Canadian; spec. a French Canadian.In U.S. usage, gen. derogatory.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > French
French Canadian1698
coureur de bois1700
Canadien1727
Acadian French1741
Canadian French1755
habitant1789
Frenchy1829
Canuck1835
pea soup1866
pea-souper1930
Joe1963
1835 H. C. Todd Notes Canada & U.S.A. 92 Jonathan distinguishes a Dutch or French Canadian, by the term Kanuk.
1849 J. E. Alexander L'Acadie I. xvi. 273 ‘Come boys and have some grog, I'm what you call a canuck:’ a (Canadian).
1855 Knickerbocker 45 341 [We gave] our donkey into the keeping of a lively Canuck.
1857 Knickerbocker Jan. 341 My grandfather..got fifty [old French crowns] at once from a Kanuck in trading.
1884 Harper's Mag. June 125/1 A ‘Kanuck’ or French Canadian.
1895 Cent. Mag. Sept. 674/2 That would be convenient over the line among the Canucks.
1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan 243 La Croix was a thick-set, hook-nosed Canuck.
1964 Calgary (Alberta) Herald 19 Mar. 18/6 The Scottish skip missed a wide open takeout in the fifth leaving the Canucks another single.
2. A Canadian horse or pony.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds
Frison?a1400
jennet1463
garron1540
Galloway1598
ghoonta1613
Goonhilly1640
forester1712
yabu1753
Highland pony1768
Narragansett pacer1777
Suffolk punch1784
Nubian1790
Cleveland bay1796
cob1818
Conestoga1824
marsh tacky1826
Narragansett1826
Russian pony1829
Clydesdale1831
Turkoman1831
Morgan1841
tarpan1841
Waler1849
Percheron1855
Canuck1860
Anglo-Arabian1864
Anglo-Arab1869
Belgium1878
Palouse1881
standardbred1888
Belgium draught horse1889
saddlebred1891
Timor pony1895
Haflinger1899
Argentine1901
Belgian1907
palomino1914
Appaloosa1924
Trakehner1926
Lipizzaner1928
Tennessee walking horse1938
Bhotia1939
cremello1944
Akhal-Teke1947
Palouse horse1947
Tennessee walker1960
Falabella1977
1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career ii. 29 I'll hang on the tail of it and try legs with that little Kanuck of his.
3. The French-Canadian patois.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French > dialectal
Canuck1904
joual1962
1904 H. F. Day Kin o' Ktaadn 145 ‘Roule, roulant, maboule roulant,’ it's all Canuck but a good song.
1965 H. Gold Man who was not with It (new ed.) xxvi. 249 Bon jour, Grack, tu viens enfin? That's Canuck for you ain't been a son to your ma.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to Canada or its inhabitants.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > Canada
Canadian1577
Canuck1862
pan-Canadian1929
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [adjective]
Canadian1577
Canadian Indian1760
Canuck1862
1862 Congress. Globe 29 Apr. 1867/3 To Canada to buy the little Canuck ponies.
1910 T. E. Lawrence Let. 17 Dec. in T. E. Lawrence et al. Home Lett. (1954) 121 The three Canuck priests.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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