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noun
A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallunaaq, “foreigner”) or Greenlandic kablunâk (“white person, Dane”) (now spelled qallunaaq), or a combination of the two.
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