skookum

• I gave my new box grater a spin, and it's great-sharp and skookum. —  Later On
• Apparently, if you make REALLY good art, you're not a "bad" person, because how can your aesthetic vision be so skookum-good when your intrinsic values are so fucking heinous? —  Smut & Steff
• He had built that gate skookum, but not to take something like that He noted carefully where they were hitting it, then backed off twenty feet and laid the .450 across a log. —  Cat and Mouse
• So I was dragged to the 'skookum-house,' where I spent the night figuring out my finish I could feel it coming just as plain, and I begun to see that when I did open up and prattle after Kink was safe, nobody wouldn't believe my little story. —  Pardners
• Even brave old Toyatte, dreading the treeless, forlorn appearance of the region, said that his heart was not strong, and that he feared his canoe, on the safety of which our lives depended, might be entering a skookum-house (jail) of ice, from which there might be no escape; while the Hoona guide said bluntly that if I was so fond of danger, and meant to go close up to the noses of the ice-mountains, he would not consent to go any farther; for we should all be lost, as many of his tribe had been, by the sudden rising of bergs from the bottom. —  Travels in Alaska

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