Definitions
Etymologies
- From Chinook Jargon, from Nootka, see below. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As she beached, I greeted her with extended eager hands to assist her ashore, for the klootchman is getting to be an old woman; albeit she paddles against tide-water like a boy in his teens.”
“They were friends until Peter got married, and then the trouble began, because they both wanted the same klootchman.”
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
“Unless it be that the more voluptuous Indian works every day of his weary, aimless life, spends nothing, and hoards the residual balance like a miser, lives on the old man before marriage, and on his klootchman after, we are unable to arrive at a solution.”
Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope
“A "ship's _klootchman_" (wife or woman), he said it was, and a "_hyas_ [big] ship" must have gone down.”
“A _klootchman_ we had not noticed before looked up, and said mournfully, "No," it was her "little woman.”
“When we started the next morning, she came down to the canoe with the little _klootchman_, loaded with presents, which she carried in”
“So he and his little _klootchman_, about as big as a child of ten, took us off.”
“Sometimes I see him at night, going out with his _klootchman_ in their little canoe; she, crouched in her scarlet blanket at one end, holding the dark sail, and the great yellow moon shining on them.”
“The medicine man told his klootchman and his children to climb up the arrow trail.”
“Then the medicine man and his klootchman and the children climbed out of the cloud and came down the mountain side.”
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slumry It is spelled with an l--another typo ("keyboardo" will never catch on, I'm afraid) Jun 15, 2007
uselessness Is this word spelled with the L or without? I like both, though the latter sounds a bit dirty. Jun 15, 2007
slumry Chinook Jargon: Woman or wife "She is old Pike's klootchman" Jun 15, 2007