seecatch

[ see-kach ]

noun

, plural see·catch·ie [see, -kach-ee].

1. the adult male of the fur seal, Callorhinus alascanus, of Alaska.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seecatch¹

1880–85, Americanism; earlier seecatchie (collective or plural) < Russian sekachí, plural of sekách mature male fur seal, hog, or wild boar, literally, chopper, cutter (alluding to the tusks of such animals), equivalent to sek-, stem of sechʾ to cut, slash + -ach noun suffix; holluschick