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kabloona, n. With reference to peoples in Canada and Greenland.
Brit. |kəˈbluːnə|, U.S. |kəˈblunə|, Canad. |kəˈbluːnə|
Plural -s, unchanged; see also kabloonat n.
Forms: α. 17– kablunak, 18 cabluna, 18 cablunak, 18 kabloon, 18 kabloonan, 18– kabloona, 18– kabluna, 19– kablona, 19– kablunaq; β. 18 kodlunar, 18 kudloonah, 18– kodluna, 19– kadloona, 19– kadluna; Also with capital initial.
[Partly > n. (plural qallunaat Qallunaat n.), and partly > n.
In β forms with -dl- after Eastern Canadian Inuit dialectal forms.]
A non-Inuit person, spec. a person of European descent; = Qallunaaq n.
1767D. Crantz Hist. Greenland I. iv. ii. xxxii. 309 The Greenlanders did not like to see this great accession of foreigners... And when they died so fast, they thought it was owing to the art of a famous angekok, who had promised to destroy the Kablunaks by his magic. 1824G. F. Lyon Private Jrnl. viii. 300 The kabloona on entering a hut always turned up their noses.., and always said ‘dirty’, or ‘bad’. 1855Househ. Words 3 Feb. 16/1 A party of kabloonans had died of starvation a long distance to the west. 1864C. F. Hall Life with Esquimaux I. 302 Five Innuits were also killed by the kodlunas. 1924R. J. Flaherty My Eskimo Friends ii. i. 56 For hours at at time they watched the crew build the kablunak's big igloo. 1965Toronto Daily Star 16 Oct. 35/6 The only white man working for them is a Kadloona called Brian Pearson. 1993D. Snowman Frozen Future iii. 54 Now, the kabloonas—they push their kids around in a trolley on wheels—as if they were items from a supermarket. |