Kabloona [< Esk. kablunā(k), pl. kablunet person with big eyebrows] Arctic DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a European; white man.
See also: Kadloona
- The term occurs in a host of spellings (Kablunak, Kablunat, Kablunan, Kablunait, and, older, Cabluna(k), etc.) resulting from the English-speaking writers' transcriptions of various regional and grammatical variants; plural forms vary, the word being uninflected usually, but sometimes taking English -s, and, less often, Latin -ae.