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  • noun Alternative form of klootch.

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Examples

  • 'No klooch of yours,' I repeats, while his face went black and his hand began dropping to his hunting-knife.

    SIWASH 2010

  • "It is said," he repeated, driving his point home with deliberation, "that Sipsip, his klooch, bore him two sons after he came back."

    Nam-Bok, the Unveracious 2010

  • I'd sooner be flat-bellied of hunger and be your woman, Tommy, than have a potlach every day and be Chief George's klooch. '

    SIWASH 2010

  • "It is said," he repeated, driving his point home with deliberation, "that Sipsip, his klooch, bore him two sons after he came back."

    NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS 2010

  • "Never a whimper; never a pick-me-up-and-carry me .... never a I-told-you-so," and, Tommy says, the Siwash woman told him, "I'd sooner be flat-bellied of hunger and be your woman, Tommy, than have a potlatch every day and be Chief George's klooch."

    “The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know. . .” 2008

  • There's money to burn in the streets to-night, so I've sent my klooch to town,

    The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses 1916

  • There's money to burn in the streets to-night, so I've sent my klooch to town,

    Songs of a Sourdough 1916

  • Sipsip, his klooch, bore him two sons after he came back.

    Nam-Bok the Unveracious 1902

  • I'd sooner be flat-bellied of hunger and be your woman, Tommy, than have a potlatch every day and be Chief George's klooch. '

    Siwash 1901

  • 'No klooch of yours,' I repeats, while his face went black and his hand began dropping to his hunting knife.

    Siwash 1901

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