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单词 cheechako
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cheechakon.adj.

Brit. /tʃiːˈtʃɑːkəʊ/, U.S. /ˌtʃiˈtʃɑkoʊ/
Forms: 1800s– chechaco, 1800s– chechocko, 1900s– checacho, 1900s– chechakho, 1900s– chechako, 1900s– chechaquo, 1900s– chechoker, 1900s– cheechaco, 1900s– cheechaker, 1900s– cheechakho, 1900s– cheechako, 1900s– cheechalko, 1900s– cheechawker, 1900s– cheechockar, 1900s– chicharko. Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Chinook Jargon. Etymon: Chinook Jargon cheechako.
Etymology: < Chinook Jargon cheechako newcomer, just arrived < chxi new ( < Chinook čxi immediately, just now) + chaku to come (probably ultimately < Nootka).
North American colloquial.
A. n.
In the mining district of Alaska or north-western Canada: a newly-arrived immigrant; a newcomer.
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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner
younglingOE
new-comeOE
novice1340
ginner?c1400
beginner1470
apprentice1489
prentice1489
infant1526
freshmana1557
intrant1560
enterer1565
puny?1570
weakling1575
new comeling1587
novist1587
incipient1589
puisne1592
abecedary1596
neophyte1600
abecedarian1603
bachelor1604
novelist?1608
alphabetary1611
breeching boy1611
tiro1611
alphabetarian1614
principiant1619
unexperienced1622
velvet head1631
undergraduatea1659
young stager1664
greenhorn1672
battledore boy1693
youngster1706
tironist1716
novitiatea1734
recruit1749
griffin1793
initiate1811
Johnny Newcome1815
Johnny Raw1823
griff1829
plebe1833
Johnny-come-lately1839
new chum1851
blanc-bec1853
fledgling1856
rookie1868
elementarian1876
tenderfoot1881
shorthorn1888
new kid1894
cheechako1897
ring-neck1898
Johnny1901
rook1902
fresh meat1908
malihini1914
initiand1915
stooge1930
intakea1943
cub1966
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > new
cheechako1897
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > new or inexperienced
cheechako1897
stubble-jumper1946
1897 Chicago Record 2 Mar. 4/4 Many a ‘Chechaco’ (tenderfoot) on his way to the mines..has thrown down his pack and struck back for town.
1901 Pall Mall Mag. Jan. 56 ‘Nome is a good camp, but too many cheechakers’, that is ‘tender feet’, new comers.
1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 Jan. 91/2 The Chechaco turns away with heart too full for words.
1963 Western Miner & Oil Rev. (Vancouver) Aug. 16/2 To many Cheechakos a shipment of a quarter ton of gold bricks represents most fabulous wealth.
1986 T. Fishlock State of Amer. i. 8 Rivalries between long-term Alaskans and newcomers, known as cheechakos.
2007 Alaska Sept. 9/1 They knew what I was—a cheechako who didn't even have the right gear, let alone the knowledge, to travel without being a rock around their necks.
B. adj. (attributive).
Of a cheechako; that is a cheechako.
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1899 Portsmout (New Hampsh.) Herald 27 June 1/6 For two dollars each in chechaco money I unite this couple in matrimony.
1958 K. Nelson & C. Ford Klondy: Daughter Gold Rush vi. 92 Most of the cheechako mushers had trouble getting past the telephone poles along Front Street.
1978 Audubon Sept. 109/1 You begin to wonder if those peaks are as formidable as they first appeared, or if your cheechako imagination..had played tricks.
1992 E. Hoagland Up Black to Chalkyitsik in Balancing Acts 66 A cabin..built for some cheechako prospectors after the gold rush.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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