kabloona means A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.
kabloona is pronounced /kəˈbluːnə/.
Why “kabloona” is a great word
KABLOONA — [Noun] A non-Inuit person, especially a European or someone of European descent, in the context of the Canadian Arctic or Greenland. Borrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallunaaq, "foreigner") or Greenlandic kablunâk ("white person, Dane"), now spelled qallunaaq. Unlike "qallunaat" (the plural indigenous term for Europeans as a group) or "settler" (a broad, politicized designation of occupation), "kabloona" is the singular, anglicized vessel for a specific cultural otherness. It is the pale hand offering a tin of hardtack, the incomprehensible shout across the sea ice, or the heavy, alien footprint left in perfect snow—a single syllable that casts a long silhouette.
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- A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.“After food and pleasantries had been exchanged, the old man asked what they were doing so far from the God-Walking People's northern lands, and when one of the hunters explained that they were looking for living or dead kabloona […]”