Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman, particularly an Indian woman.
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- noun US, Canada
Woman ,wife (especially if Native American).
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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A _klootchman_ we had not noticed before looked up, and said mournfully, "No," it was her "little woman."
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The medicine man told his klootchman and his children to climb up the arrow trail.
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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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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.
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A "ship's _klootchman_" (wife or woman), he said it was, and a "_hyas_ [big] ship" must have gone down.
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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
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When we started the next morning, she came down to the canoe with the little _klootchman_, loaded with presents, which she carried in
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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
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So he and his little _klootchman_, about as big as a child of ten, took us off.
slumry commented on the word klootchman
Chinook Jargon: Woman or wife "She is old Pike's klootchman"
June 15, 2007
uselessness commented on the word klootchman
Is this word spelled with the L or without? I like both, though the latter sounds a bit dirty.
June 15, 2007
slumry commented on the word klootchman
It is spelled with an l--another typo ("keyboardo" will never catch on, I'm afraid)
June 15, 2007