Associations to the word «Canuck»

Wiktionary

CANUCK, noun. (Canada) (informal) A Canadian.
CANUCK, noun. (chiefly US slang) (often derogatory) A Canadian, especially a French Canadian.
CANUCK, noun. The French-Canadian dialect.
CANUCK, noun. (rare) A thing from Canada.
CANUCK, noun. (US) (obsolete) A Canadian pony or horse.
CANUCK, noun. (ice hockey) A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional NHL ice hockey team.
CANUCK, noun. The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor.
CANUCK, adjective. (informal) (occasionally construed as derogatory) Canadian.

Dictionary definition

CANUCK, noun. Informal term for Canadians in general and French Canadians in particular.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats