(in Canada) a person who is not of Inuit ancestry, esp a White person
Word origin
from Inuktitut
kabloona in American English
(kæbˈluːnə)
noun
Northern Canadian
a white man; a European
Word origin
[1765–75; ‹ Inuit qablunaaq, prob. deriv. of qava the South; assoc. with qablu “eyebrow” has given rise to the spurious trans. “person with big eyebrows”]This word is first recorded in the period 1765–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bilateral, bonus, civilization, copperhead, guidance