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Definition of cheechako in English: cheechakonounPlural cheechakos tʃiːˈtʃɑːkəʊCHēˈCHäkō North American informal A person newly arrived in the mining districts of Alaska or north-western Canada. Example sentencesExamples - One party of cheechakos who inquired about the best places to find gold were instructed by old timers to go to the top of a distant hill and sink shafts.
- While miners, sourdoughs and cheechakos stampeded the town, Frederick Arthur Kubon was born.
- Casey was explaining that a sourdough was someone who'd spent the winter in the North, and Rick and Willow were still cheechakos.
- A dramatic influx of eager cheechakos in the summer of 1898 created overnight, the largest city west of Winnipeg, Manitoba and north of Seattle, Washington.
- For 25 years, sourdoughs, cheechakos, travelers, students and writers have trusted The Alaska Almanac to provide facts on many things Alaskan.
- Here you walk the streets side by side with merchants, miners, Indians, Eskimos, pioneers and cheechakos.
- ‘Go easy on him, Rob,’ Wiley said, reaching forward to pat Dexter's broad shoulder ‘He's a cheechako.’
- But a few cheechakos went to investigate, and the word spread.
- Deep in this wilderness, cheechakos are far away from computers, television, and video games.
- With tens of thousands of cheechakos on the trail to the goldfields, accidents along the waterways of the North were inevitable.
- Under the harsh exposure of winter, the population eroded each year as many cheechakos packed up and returned south.
- Just as inhabitants of different regions of the country have dialects and language unique to them, Alaskans have a lexicon of their own that can be baffling to cheechakos.
Origin Late 19th century: Chinook Jargon, 'newcomer'. Definition of cheechako in US English: cheechakonounCHēˈCHäkō North American informal A person newly arrived in the mining districts of Alaska or northwestern Canada. Example sentencesExamples - With tens of thousands of cheechakos on the trail to the goldfields, accidents along the waterways of the North were inevitable.
- Under the harsh exposure of winter, the population eroded each year as many cheechakos packed up and returned south.
- Deep in this wilderness, cheechakos are far away from computers, television, and video games.
- ‘Go easy on him, Rob,’ Wiley said, reaching forward to pat Dexter's broad shoulder ‘He's a cheechako.’
- Casey was explaining that a sourdough was someone who'd spent the winter in the North, and Rick and Willow were still cheechakos.
- For 25 years, sourdoughs, cheechakos, travelers, students and writers have trusted The Alaska Almanac to provide facts on many things Alaskan.
- While miners, sourdoughs and cheechakos stampeded the town, Frederick Arthur Kubon was born.
- One party of cheechakos who inquired about the best places to find gold were instructed by old timers to go to the top of a distant hill and sink shafts.
- But a few cheechakos went to investigate, and the word spread.
- A dramatic influx of eager cheechakos in the summer of 1898 created overnight, the largest city west of Winnipeg, Manitoba and north of Seattle, Washington.
- Here you walk the streets side by side with merchants, miners, Indians, Eskimos, pioneers and cheechakos.
- Just as inhabitants of different regions of the country have dialects and language unique to them, Alaskans have a lexicon of their own that can be baffling to cheechakos.
Origin Late 19th century: Chinook Jargon, ‘newcomer’. |