Canuck Definition

kə-nŭk
noun
A Canadian; sometimes, specif., a French Canadian.
Webster's New World

(Canada, informal) A Canadian.

Wiktionary
Wiktionary
(rare) A thing from Canada.
Wiktionary

(ice hockey) A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional NHL ice hockey team.

Wiktionary
adjective
Canadian; sometimes, specif., French Canadian.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Canuck

Noun

Singular:
Canuck
Plural:
canucks

Origin of Canuck

  • Possibly from alteration of Canada or from Hawaiian kanaka man, human being (from Proto-Polynesian tangata (the Hawaiian word perhaps coming to refer to French Canadians because both Hawaiians and French Canadians worked in the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest))

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 1835 Kanuk (US), 1849 canuck (Canadian), origin Unknown.

    From Wiktionary

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