英和和英

語源

Borrowed from Chinook Jargon cheechako.

発音

• IPA^(key): /tʃiˈtʃɑ.koʊ/, /tʃiˈtʃɔ.koʊ/,^[1] (Alaska, dated) /tʃiˈtʃɑ.kəɹ/, /tʃiˈtʃɔ.kəɹ/^[2]

名詞

cheechako (複数形 cheechakos または cheechakoes)

1. Someone new to Alaska or the Yukon; originally, a gold rush newcomer.
   • 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 41:

     And now this blonde, from Outside no loess, the rawest of cheechakos, the most innocent of Alaskan naifs, a literal babe in the woods, had asked a few simple questions and gotten the whole story, all of it, simply and succinctly and more, gotten it without attitude or resentment.

同意語

• tenderfoot
• greenhorn

反意語

• sourdough

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