Canuck

Origin: , often hypothesized to derive from the name or speech of an early Canadian minority, later broadened to denote all Canadians: * Since 1975, many scholars have come to think the name is from , a self-appellation of indentured colonial canoemen and Hawaiian sailors working off the Pacific Northwest, Arctic and New England coasts, from ; or, more likely, American whalers’ pidgin, then re-interpreted as Can(adian) + a . (More below on that [specific] putative suffix.) Compare and . * Some dictionaries suggest it is derived from the first syllable of Canada, or its , or a related word kanuchsa. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).