DCHP-1 Online
klooch 
n. an Indian woman; wife; squaw.
See also: kloochman (def. 1)
- 1861 (1948) ". . . I perceived two clootch-vimmen a'standin' outside of a 'ouse, and they was a-laughing at me. So I haxes myself--is 'eathens to be allowed to laugh at Christians in this blessed country?"
- 1897 The half-breed women wear skirts, but the klūtch (short for klūtchman, the local name for squaws) dress exactly like the men, and have not the smallest pretence to looks or figure.
- 1921 A few trappers and prospectors find their lives so lonely that they mate with the dusky klooches of the country.
- 1963 . . . the good breakfast of fried mowitch and bannock [was] being cooked by Henry's klootch.
- 1861 (1948) ". . . I perceived two clootch-vimmen a'standin' outside of a 'ouse, and they was a-laughing at me. So I haxes myself--is 'eathens to be allowed to laugh at Christians in this blessed country?"