helo

[< Chinook Jargon]

B.C.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Spelling variants:
halo, halu

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adj. adv.

no; none.

<i>c</i>1846

["It's done . . . Hi-low."]

1860

Garretson replied that he had "halu chicamun," when the Tongass presented a musket at his breast, and threatened to shoot.

1894

"What keeps the old man? You halo comtax anything, Chance. . . ."

1963

"Mebbeso," Charlie went on, "helo chicamun stop I come back," meaning that he might return broke.