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jackatar

[ jak-uh-tahr ]

noun

, Newfoundland.
  1. a Newfoundlander of mixed French and Native descent.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of jackatar1

1855–60; perhaps jack-tar (with -a- representing release of the stop) though the change in sense is unaccounted for

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