Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A soft boot made of reindeer skin or sealskin and worn by Eskimos.
- n. A slipper with a soft sole resembling this boot.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Central Siberian Yupik maklak ("bearded seal"), referring to sealskin used to make boots. (Wiktionary)
- Yupik maklak, bearded seal. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“mukluk," others in sweaters with huge initials and winged emblems, and all were collarless.”
“At a recent rehearsal, dressed in black leggings and mukluk slippers with a long ponytail and fingernails painted a light shade of coffee, she spoke with The Wall Street Journal about her unusual path back to New York.”
The Wall Street Journal: Stepping Gracefully Into Her Identity
“An Eskimo mukluk in cheap black vinyl is not my style.”
“Alaskan winter nights last 18 hours (which Todd and I will never let Bristol use as an excuse again), and there's nothing better to mukluk your toes than the thick skin of a moose!”
“They're more mukluk than goth, but you can't beat 'em for warmth.”
Calling all Knitters! And Sock Lovers! Emergency Knitting please? Plus see squirrel pics!
“They are also notorious for wanting to lower taxes on business so they can hire more mukluk makers.”
“From fun ponchos to trimmed mukluk boots, these prints are alive and well today, giving a “bohemian chic” look to anything you pair them with.”
“He was dressed in traditional Inuit clothes: fur parka, fur pants, and mukluk boots.”
“Frequently he lunged into the drifts with one foot, or both; his glazed mukluk soles slid about, causing him to bestride the invisible hogback, or again his legs crossed awkwardly, throwing him off his balance.”
“Esquimau mukluk, not easily obtainable in the interior of Alaska, but the mukluk is an inconvenient footwear to put snow-shoes on.”
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mukluk’.
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250 Extra Spelling Words
Some more words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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*CVk
...where C is any consonant and V is any vowel.
trek, flak, anorak, fartlek, lek, beatnik, realpolitik, amok, mukluk, Wordnik, springbok, kulak and 3 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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Canadianisms
Canuck, timbit, Timbit, inukshuk, Canadianism, spiked, hyderize, canuckistan, Canuckistan, hoser, double double, Triumf and 373 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
koyukon, chinook, coho, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit, samlet, parr and 225 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Boots
Types of boots used as footwear, or in a few cases, to protect the feet and legs of horses.
"...waterleg and gumboots each for Bully Hayes and Hurricane Hartigan..." --Finnegans Wakeankle-jack, jackboot, Hessian boot, Wellington boot, wellie, gumboot, galoshes, goloe-shoes, galosh, overshoe, galoche, galage and 73 more...
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fun to say2
marmoreal, monomania, parenthetically, vestigial, heathenish, harlequinade, hallucinatory, somnipathy, alphanumeric, algidity, agrarian, acclivitous and 61 more...
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M or N?
nurk, nyaffle, nosism, nexum, nazar, noyade, nooningscaup, mimp, mida, mollynogging, mulciberian, marzavec and 68 more...
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Favorite Foreign Words
cacahuatl, soixante, betelgeuse, tchotchke, tsetse, eau, que, aufgezeignet, xocoatl, quetzalcoatl, prosek, da and 82 more...
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Words that sound dirty, but aren't
Inspired by a Candid Camera sketch.
horehound, fugue, ramrod, jocular, thespian, titmouse, masticate, pussyfoot, angina, booby, formicate, hoar and 64 more...
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bulbous bouffant
words from the classic (and wonderful) radio sketch "Bulbous Bouffant"
bulbous, bouffant, macadamia, galoshes, tuberculosis, gazebo, bus, mukluk, eskimo, beluga, plethora, bamboozle and 7 more...
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Wolfy's Words
wolfy, fauna, evergreen, fuzzy, smorgasborg, architecture, bedlam, endow, exceptional, extrinsic, free, excalibur and 70 more...
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