Citations:Canuck

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English citations of Canuck

Noun

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  2. (Canada, US, informal, sometimes derogatory) A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other descent.
    • , Notes upon Canada and the United States of America: In the Year MDCCCXXXV , Toronto, Ont.: W J Coates, , →OCLC, paragraph 263, page 92:
      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.
      “Jonathan” is a 19th-century nickname for a New Englander.]
    • 1849, James E Alexander, chapter XV, in L’Acadie; or, Seven Years’ Explorations in British America.  In Two Volumes.">…], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, pages 272–273:
      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).
      Referring to an English-speaking Canadian.
    • 1855, “A Ramble in October”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, v 45, p 341:
      So, giving our donkey into the keeping of a lively Canuck, whom we found at the Red-House, hard-by, we commenced the slow ascent by a side-path that at this point winds out of the common road.
    • 1861, B. Davies, “On the Origin of the name ‘Canada’”, in The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, v 6, Montreal: B. Dawson & Son, p 431:
      And this is the explanation which appears now to find most favour; and though not satisfied with it myself, I must add that it is somewhat supported—as it has struck me—by the analogy of another term, namely Canuc, which is used vulgarly and rather contemptuously for Canadian, and which seems to me to come from Canuchsha, the word employed by the Iroquois to denote a ‘hut’ (see Arch. Americana, vol. ii. p. 322). Here a Canadian would mean a ‘townsman’ or ‘villager’, but a canuc would be only a ‘hutter’.
    • 1872, Maximilian Schele De Vere, Americanisms: The English of the New World, New York: Charles Scribner & Co., p 589:
      Canacks, Canucks, and even K'nucks, are slang terms by which the Canadians are known in the United States and among themselves.
    • 1889, John G Donkin, chapter XIII, in Trooper and Redskin in the Far North-West: Recollections of Life in the North-West Mounted Police, Canada, 1884–1888, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington , →OCLC, page 148:
      It is a pity these Canadian militiamen spoilt the good work they had done by never-failing bluster. But for pure and unadulterated brag I will back the lower-class Canuck against the world. The Yankee is a very sucking dove compared to his northern neighbour.
    • 1900, North American Notes & Queries, July, p 64:
      I would very much like to know the origin of the expression Canuck applied to the French Canadians.
    • 1907 May, Howard Angus Kennedy, “The Dry Patch”, in New Canada and the New Canadians, 2nd edition, London: Horace Marshall & Son, published October 1907, →OCLC, page 192:
      The new-comers were a couple of farmers from Minnesota, genuine Americans from birth; wise men, with a keg of good water in their waggon. "And don't you want to be Americans any longer?" I asked. "No," said they most emphatically, "we're Canucks now."
    • 1912, Vingie E. Roe, The Maid of the Whispering Hills, p 39:
      On the face of the swarthy Canuck guide who sat in the stern there was a weary contempt.
    • 1963, Citizen , May 12, p 30:
      What is the origin of the nickname Jack Canuck? It probably comes from the name Connaught, the nickname given more than 100 years ago by French Canadians to Canadians of Irish origin.
    • 1964 March 19, Larry Wood, “Dagg stays unbeaten: Scotch Cup winner decided tonight”, in Richard L Sanburn, editor, The Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alta.: The Southam Company, →ISSN, page 18, column 5:
      The Scottish skip missed a wide open takeout in the fifth leaving the Canucks another single.
      Referring to members of the Canadian curling team.
  3. (rare) A thing from Canada.
    1. (US, obsolete) A Canadian horse or pony.
      • 1860, J G Holland, “Miss Gilbert Visits the Sky, and Little Venus Takes up Her Permanent Residence there”, in Miss Gilbert’s Career: An American Story, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner, ; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., →OCLC, page 29:
        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.

Proper noun

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  1. The French-Canadian dialect; also (historical, rare) synonym of Canadian French (“the French language as spoken by Francophones in Canada”).
    • 1904, Holman F Day, “Kingdom o’ Spruce: Song of the Men o’ the Ax”, in Kin o’ Ktaadn: Verse Stories of the Plain Folk who are Keeping Bright the Old Home Fires up in Maine, Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 145:
      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.
    • 1956, Herbert Gold, “Round and round, the trick of want”, in The Man who was Not with It (An Avon Library Book), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published March 1969, →OCLC, page 179:
      So Mama will say, Bon jour, Grack, tu viens enfin? That's Canuck for you ain't been a son to your ma. Can't you see by my skin and bones—I'm sick, I got a habit—I ain't my mama's anymore?

Adjective

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  1. (originally informal, sometimes derogatory) Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people; Canadian.
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