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单词 kabloona
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kabloonan.

Brit. /kəˈbluːnə/, U.S. /kəˈblunə/, Canadian English /kəˈbluːnə/
Inflections: Plural kabloonas, unchanged; see also kabloonat n.
Forms:

α. 1700s– kablunak, 1800s cabluna, 1800s cablunak, 1800s kabloon, 1800s kabloonan, 1800s– kabloona, 1800s– kabluna, 1900s– kablona, 1900s– kablunaq.

β. 1800s kodlunar, 1800s kudloonah, 1800s– kodluna, 1900s– kadloona, 1900s– kadluna.

Also with capital initial.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Eastern Canadian Inuit. Partly a borrowing from Greenlandic. Etymons: Eastern Canadian Inuit qallunaaq; Greenlandic Kablunâk.
Etymology: Partly < an early precursor of Eastern Canadian Inuit qallunaaq Qallunaaq n. (plural qallunaat Qallunaat n.), and partly < its cognate early Greenlandic Inuit Kablunâk foreigner, European, especially Dane (1804; now qaɬɬunaaq ). Compare earlier kabloonat n.In β. forms with -dl- after Eastern Canadian Inuit dialectal forms.
With reference to peoples in Canada and Greenland.
A non-Inuit person, spec. a person of European descent; = Qallunaaq n.
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1767 tr. D. Cranz 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.
1824 G. F. Lyon Private Jrnl. viii. 300 The kabloona on entering a hut always turned up their noses.., and always said ‘dirty’, or ‘bad’.
1855 Househ. Words 3 Feb. 16/1 A party of kabloonans had died of starvation a long distance to the west.
1864 C. F. Hall Life with Esquimaux I. 302 Five Innuits were also killed by the kodlunas.
1924 R. J. Flaherty My Eskimo Friends ii. i. 56 For hours at at time they watched the crew build the kablunak's big igloo.
1965 Toronto Daily Star 16 Oct. 35/6 The only white man working for them is a Kadloona called Brian Pearson.
1993 D. 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.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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