Canuck

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “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).”

2. isim A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
3. isim Chiefly as Crazy Canuck: a member of the Canadian alpine ski team.
4. isim A thing from Canada.

   “Wha'll buy my caller herrin'? / Cod, turbot, ling, delicious farin', / Buy my caller herrin', / They're every one Kanucks!”

5. isim The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor aircraft, in use between 1952 and 1981.
6. isim A Canadian horse or pony.

   “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.”

7. özel isim Synonym 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.[…]"”

8. özel isim Synonym 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.”

9. sıfat Of, 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.”

10. sıfat Of or relating to the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.