DCHP-1 Online

helo halo, halu [< Chinook Jargon] B.C.

• adj. adv. no; none.

  • c1846  (1849)  ["It's done . . . Hi-low."]
  • 1860  Garretson replied that he had "halu chicamun," when the Tongass presented a musket at his breast, and threatened to shoot.
  • 1894  "What keeps the old man? You halo comtax anything, Chance. . . ."
  • 1963  "Mebbeso," Charlie went on, "helo chicamun stop I come back," meaning that he might return broke.