Citations:Canuck

Noun

 * 1)  A Canadian person; specifically, a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also  a Canadian person of other descent.
 * 2) * 1855, “A Ramble in October”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, v 45, p 341:
 * So, giving our donkey into the keeping of a lively Canuck, whom we found at the Red-House, hard-by, we commenced the slow ascent by a side-path that at this point winds out of the common road.
 * 1) * 1861, B. Davies, “On the Origin of the name ‘Canada’”, in The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, v 6, Montreal: B. Dawson & Son, p 431:
 * And this is the explanation which appears now to find most favour; and though not satisfied with it myself, I must add that it is somewhat supported—as it has struck me—by the analogy of another term, namely Canuc, which is used vulgarly and rather contemptuously for Canadian, and which seems to me to come from Canuchsha, the word employed by the Iroquois to denote a ‘hut’ (see Arch. Americana, vol. ii. p. 322). Here a Canadian would mean a ‘townsman’ or ‘villager’, but a canuc would be only a ‘hutter’.
 * 1) * 1872, Maximilian Schele De Vere, Americanisms: The English of the New World, New York: Charles Scribner & Co., p 589:
 * Canacks, Canucks, and even K'nucks, are slang terms by which the Canadians are known in the United States and among themselves.
 * 1) * 1900, North American Notes & Queries, July, p 64:
 * I would very much like to know the origin of the expression Canuck applied to the French Canadians.
 * 1) * 1912, Vingie E. Roe, The Maid of the Whispering Hills, p 39:
 * On the face of the swarthy Canuck guide who sat in the stern there was a weary contempt.
 * 1) * 1963, Citizen [North Vancouver], May 12, p 30:
 * What is the origin of the nickname Jack Canuck? It probably comes from the name Connaught, the nickname given more than 100 years ago by French Canadians to Canadians of Irish origin.
 * 1)  A thing from Canada.
 * 2)  A Canadian horse or pony.
 * 1) * 1963, Citizen [North Vancouver], May 12, p 30:
 * What is the origin of the nickname Jack Canuck? It probably comes from the name Connaught, the nickname given more than 100 years ago by French Canadians to Canadians of Irish origin.
 * 1)  A thing from Canada.
 * 2)  A Canadian horse or pony.
 * 1)  A Canadian horse or pony.
 * 1)  A Canadian horse or pony.

Proper noun

 * 1) The French-Canadian dialect; also.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people; Canadian.