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sourdough boy

Northwest, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any old hand in the Yukon or the Northwest Territories; an old-timer, as opposed to a greenhorn, or cheechako.

See: sourdough(def. 2c),cheechako ((n.))

Quotations

1900

Grizzled "sour-dough boys," day-laborers at the mines . . . either patronized the spruce-looking tenderfeet and lied eloquently,--the "sour-dough boys" being specially created to toy with the truth,--or gave them savage looks of indignation because of their ignorance.