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oogruk
[< Esk.]
North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus barbatus.
The variant spellings of this word, which are almost as numerous as the references, are entered and cross-referred to this somewhat arbitrarily chosen entry-word. These variants include oakjook, oakjuk, ogjuk, oguk, oodjuk, oogyuk, ookchuk, ookgook, ookjuk, udjuk, ugluk, ugjuk.
Quotations
1836
[Seal, large Oguké.]
1852
Seal, largest kind uksuk; oguk.
1864
Most of the meat and blubber we deposited en cache, and the ookgook we left on the ice.
1909
As the four fingers dropped into the sea they changed respectively into beluga the white whale, nutchook the common seal, oogzook the big seal, and ibyl the walrus.
1959
Then there would be feasting, and everybody helped themselves to walrus, dried oogruk (bearded seal), whale blubber, and rotted fish.
1964
As we proceeded the "oodjuki" could be seen resting on a fairly large sized piece of ice, with its nose at the edge just above the water.