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chee·cha·ko

 (chĭ-chä′kō, -chô′-)
n. pl. chee·cha·kos Chiefly Alaska & Yukon Territory
A newcomer to Alaska or the Yukon Territory; a tenderfoot.

[Chinook Jargon, newcomer : chee, new (from Lower Chinook čxi, a little while passed, then) + chako, to come, become (perhaps from Nootka čukwaa, come! (exclamatory imperative)).]
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cheechako

(tʃiːˈtʃɑːkəʊ) or

cheechalko

n, pl -kos
slang US a newcomer to the state of Alaska
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chee•chak•o

(tʃiˈtʃæk oʊ)

n.
Informal. (in Alaska and N Canada) a newcomer; tenderfoot.
[1895–1900; < Chinook Jargon]
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References in periodicals archive
'I've been here nearly thirty years, and I'm still a cheechako."
Cheechako is a young adult novel that opens with a bang: "Will nearly made it to safety before they spotted him.
In the introduction to Queeny's book "Cheechako," Buckingham wrote, "It is good to have gunned with Edgar Queeny the man, and to have watched his steady trend toward a sportsmanship bent upon contributions of high value."
"Clancy of the Mounted." Ballads of a Cheechako. Toronto: William Briggs, 1911.
Despite Alluna's leeriness of the cheechako or tenderfoot, Necia is enamored with the dashing lieutenant.
Whatever qualms the Briggs people had about Songs of a Sourdough and Ballads of a Cheechako (which had a first printing of 28,000 in 1909 (25)), they marketed both titles aggressively in a variety of bindings, and periodically updated Bookseller and Stationer on their remarkable sales.
The beluga hunt and subsequent whale barbecue of "beluga-burgers" were featured events at the Kenai Days fair from 1963 through 1965 (reported in the local newspaper, The Kenai Peninsula Cheechako News).
Service's first verse collections, Songs of a Sourdough (1907) and Ballads of a Cheechako (1909), describing life in the Canadian north, were enormously popular.
Service's Songs of a Sourdough (1907, later called The Spell of the Yukon, 1908), his Ballads of a Cheechako (1907), and his novel Trail of'98 (1912) recall the Klondike scene.
The Cheechako Package is the lodge's longest planned trip, spanning seven days and six nights.
In his biography, Ploughman of the Moon, Service recalled that his second effort, The Ballads of a Cheechako, also caused the House some anxiety.
His other titles are Ballads of a Cheechako (1909), Rhymes of a Rolling Stone (1912), Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916), Ballads of a Bohemian (1920), Bar-Room Ballads (1940), Rhymes of a Roughneck (1951), Rhymes of a Rebel (1952), and Carols of a Codger (1954).
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