mukluk
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Etymology
Borrowed from Yup'ik maklak (“bearded seal”), referring to sealskin used to make boots, originally derived from Proto-Eskimo *makla (“bearded seal, spotted seal”).
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Noun
mukluk (plural mukluks)
- (Canada, US) A soft knee-high boot of sealskin or reindeer skin, originally worn by Inuit and Yupik.
- 1898 December 8, Medicine Hat News, page 5:
- Her parkee, made of Caribou, it is a lovely fit, / And she's all right from muck-a-luck unto her dainty mit. / This lovely Klooch is fond of Hooch, and makes it very well.
- (Canada, US) A laced winter boot resembling a traditional mukluk, with thick rubber sole and cloth upper.
- 1966 April 27, Kingston Whig-Standard, page 26:
- [...] the Canadians’ [soldiers’] mukluks and sleeping bags were superior to anything in use. the mukluk, a rubber-soled boot with a calf-high outer nylon cover, has a thick woollen inner boot that keeps feet warm in the coldest of weather.
- 2004, Paola Gianturco, Celebrating Women:
- The skin is used to make mukluks, hats, parkas. We are resourceful and respectful of the animals, the land.
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- “mukluk, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023. - “mukluk” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Stefan Dollinger, Margery Fee, editors (2017), “mukluk, n.”, in DCHP-2 Online: A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, 2nd edition, Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia, →OCLC.
Spanish
Noun
mukluk m (plural mukluks)