DCHP-1 Online

oogruk [< Esk.] North

• n. the bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus barbatus.

  • The variant spellings of this word, which are almost as numerous as the references, are entered and cross-referred to this somewhat arbitrarily chosen entry-word. These variants include oakjook, oakjuk, ogjuk, oguk, oodjuk, oogyuk, ookchuk, ookgook, ookjuk, udjuk, ugluk, ugjuk.

  • 1836  [Seal, large Oguké.]
  • 1852  Seal, largest kind uksuk; oguk.
  • 1864  Most of the meat and blubber we deposited en cache, and the ookgook we left on the ice.
  • 1909  As the four fingers dropped into the sea they changed respectively into beluga the white whale, nutchook the common seal, oogzook the big seal, and ibyl the walrus.
  • 1959  Then there would be feasting, and everybody helped themselves to walrus, dried oogruk (bearded seal), whale blubber, and rotted fish.
  • 1964  As we proceeded the "oodjuki" could be seen resting on a fairly large sized piece of ice, with its nose at the edge just above the water.