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hyiu-skookum

Pacific Coast and Northwest

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

very great, strong, or important.

See: hyiu,skookum

Quotations

1898

Down in Dawson on the Klondyke, there's a lady in command / Who rules the good old pioneers and the great Cheechacah band. / She's a hiyu-skookum lady, she's the Dawson City Belle.

1910

. . . he knew that Dave Walsh was a big man, worth lots of money, a hi-yu skookum chief.