Chukchee









Chukchee


Chukchee [choo k-chee] Examples noun, plural Chuk·chees, (especially collectively) Chuk·chee.

  1. Chukchi.

Chukchi or Chuch·chi, Chuck·chi, Chuk·chee [choo k-chee] noun, plural Chuk·chis, (especially collectively) Chuk·chi for 1.

  1. a member of a Paleo-Asiatic people of northeastern Siberia.
  2. the Chukotian language of the Chukchi people, noted for having different pronunciations for men and women.

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  • Buza exclaimed, pulling the Chukchee, who was half tipsy, by the arm.

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  • We didn’t even make a fire, for I am afraid of the Chukchee.

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  • Those cursed Chukchee drink it like fishes, and are wild to get it.

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  • “Your fame will spread among the Chukchee; you will have no peace now,” Buza said to Stefan in the hall.

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  • A Chukchee, dressed in fur and with a spear in his hand, lay face downwards across the pathway.

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  • British Dictionary definitions for chukchee Chukchi Chukchee noun

    1. plural -chi, -chis, -chee or -chees a member of a people of the Chukchi Peninsula
    2. the language of this people, related only to some of the smaller aboriginal languages of Siberia
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