DCHP-1 Online
whacheer [< English greeting, what cheer, borrowed by the Crees] North 
n. a long-established greeting. Also spelled watcheer.
See also: wachee
- 1578 (1889) [They haled one another according to the manner of the Sea, and demaunded what cheare? & either partie answered ye other, that all was well.]
- 1743 (1949) How do you do friend [is, in Cree] Watcheer Coshock.
- 1858 (1860) Among the Plains Cree, with whom the Scotch employes of the Hudson's Bay Company early established communication, the first address is generally "whacheer! whacheer!"
- 1934 . . . the Chief Factor proceeded to shake each squaw and Indian by the hand, saying "Watcheer?"
- 1963 Next came the Indian men . . . who gravely shook hands, said "What Cheer " the common seaman's salutation, engrafted in the Cree language from constant repetition. . . .
- 1578 (1889) [They haled one another according to the manner of the Sea, and demaunded what cheare? & either partie answered ye other, that all was well.]