Canucknoun/kəˈnʌk/

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  derogatoryinformalA Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.

  • Canadians are somewhat jealous of the Americans; that they are secretly manœuvering, not exactly with the inoffensive good humor of a much respected yeoman of England, […] but rather after the inordinate example of Ahab of old, so pithily recorded by the sacred historian. Jonathan distinguishes a Dutch or French Canadian, by the term Kanuk.
  • We saw a few partridges: we also met a lusty fellow in a forest road with a keg of whisky slung round him, who called to us 'Come boys and have some grog, I'm what you call a canuck:' a (Canadian).
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  derogatoryinformalhobbiesice-hockeylifestyleA Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.

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  derogatoryinformalhobbieslifestyleskiingA Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.

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  rareA thing from Canada.

  • Wha'll buy my caller herrin'? / Cod, turbot, ling, delicious farin', / Buy my caller herrin', / They're every one Kanucks!
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  historicalrareaeronauticsaerospaceaviationA thing from Canada.

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  obsoleterareA thing from Canada.

  • I'll sit here and blow till he comes round with his old go-cart, and then I'll hang on to the tail of it, and try legs with that little Kanuck of his.
  • Forty years ago the States south of the French part of Canada procured a large number of horses from that country. These were popularly called "Canucks," and were distinguished from the horses of the country by strongly marked characteristics. […] The Canuck was thoroughly a Norman horse in all respects except size, though having more strength in proportion to size and more spirit, […] Canucks in general had excessive knee action, and were natural trotters or pacers, were not built for galloping, and not inclined to take that gait; […]

Canuckname/kəˈnʌk/

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  historicalrareSynonym of Canadian French (“the French language as spoken by Francophones in Canada”).

  • "Oh, monsieur, monsieur, ayez pitie de moi; je suis honnète et vous paierai dix fois autant." / "You blasted scoundrel that you are, I want none of your impertinence and Canuck lingo; go hunt up your dirty trash of hungry humbugs, that you shouldered upon me last evening.[…]"
  • On the deacon-seat in the leapin' heat / With the corn-cobs drawin' cool and sweet, / And timin' the fiddle with tunkin' feet, / A hundred men and a chorus. / "Roule, roulant, ma boule roulant," / It 's all Canuck but a good old song; / Lift it up then, good and strong, / For a cozy night 's before us.
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  slangSynonym of Canadian English (“the variety of the English language used in Canada”).

  • "It is one ver' gran' night," I said in my dialect of the rude Canuck; for I did not wish him, or any one, to know me.

Canuckadj/kəˈnʌk/

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  derogatoryOf, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people; Canadian.

  • "I want none of your d—— peasoup excuses, or promises," and, calling upon the hostler, a fat-blooded Englishman, he ordered him to stable the horse immediately, and keep a sharp "look out" to that Canuck Frenchman.
  • It is well known that Canada, by the adoption of a protective tariff, shut out many of our American articles from the Canuck markets.
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  hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleOf or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.