nanook
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓇᓄᖅ (nanuq, “polar bear”)
Noun
nanook (plural nanooks)
- (Alaska) Polar bear.
- 1935, Armstrong Sperry, One Day with Tuktu: An Eskimo Boy:
- Let's build a nanook. A big one. Almost as big as a real one!
- 1967, North - Volumes 14-15, page 52:
- "I have a way with nanooks," Mazwuk explained, hoping that none would notice the tremor in his voice, ...
- 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 110:
- She dressed: white T-shirt, black jeans, blue sweatshirt with the gold UAF nanook on the front, white anklets, black-and-white Nike tennis shoes.
- 2008, Briton Hadden & Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 172, page 102:
- Promising in her Inaugural Address to protect the state like a "nanook defending her cub," she has continued to play down social issues as governor.
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