Skookumchuck
Skookumchuck is a Chinook Jargon term that is in common use in British Columbia English and occurs in Pacific Northwest English. Skookum means "strong" or "powerful", and "chuck" means water, so skookumchuck means "rapids" or "whitewater" (literally, "strong water"), or fresh, healthy water.[1] It can mean any rapids, but in coastal usage refers to the powerful tidal rapids at the mouths of most of the major coastal inlets.
Skookumchuck could also mean
- Skookumchuck, British Columbia, a town in British Columbia
- Skookumchuck Hot Springs, British Columbia, a town in British Columbia
- Skookumchuck Narrows, a narrow passage in British Columbia's Sunshine Coast
- Skookumchuck Narrows Provincial Park, a park located at the narrows
- Skookumchuck Rapids Provincial Park, a park near Mabel Lake, British Columbia
- Skookumchuck River, a river in the US state of Washington
References
- ↑ Phillips, Walter Shelley (1913). The Chinook Book: A Descriptive Analysis of the Chinook Jargon in Plain Words, Giving Instructions for Pronunciation, Construction, Expression and Proper Speaking of Chinook with All the Various Shaded Meanings of the Words. Seattle: R. L. Davis Printing Co. pp. 86–87.
See also
- Chinook Jargon
- List of Chinook Jargon placenames
- Chinook Jargon use by English-language speakers