Canuck

an endearing nickname for a canadian.
those canucks sure say eh and sorry alot…what is up with that? no wonder everyone just wants to go and squeak their cheeks…they’re just too cute…albeit monotonous…lol.

canadian nickname
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a term for canadians like “yankee” to americans. comes from a wwi comic book called “johnny canuck” a canadian soldier in the war. also the name of vancouver’s nhl team
canucks rule!
best hockey team canada has right now.
d-mn the canucks kick -ss
a term used for canadians
a canadian. also the name of a hockey team.
i live in canada, i’m a canuck.
they are my favourite hockey team in the whole world, and i will cheer for them forever. i am very fortunate and privileged to be able to go to gm place many times a season. i still have great memories of their early 90’s seasons, when i first became a fan.
the vancouver canucks give me a warm sense of pride. go canucks!
a hockey team located in vancouver british columbia
there is a theory that the word is derived from connaught, a term said to be given by french canadians to the irish. the oxford companion to the english language (defines the term as): canuck 1820’s. probably from the iroquoian “canuchsa”, someone in a “kanata”(village)…but possibly from hawaiian “kanaka” (man), through a pidgin used in the fur trade (in which pacific islanders were employed), and taken into french as “canaque”, perhaps being originally applied to french canadian canoemen. a nickname for a canadian…but in the u.s. northeast pejoratively referring to french canadians.
why is it canucks always have the most intelligent answers?
because canucks rule!