DCHP-3

jick

[< the suffix common to many Cree names]
Slang, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

an Indian.

Quotations

1933
They were at best transients, those about now consisting of several families of jicks whose hunting territory abutted on the post property and other families who spent the summer holidays in the neighbourhood, convenient to the islands on the lake, which were kept as summer preserves, the property of all, the hunts thereon being communal and for festive purposes rather than for births.