by yowaldo January 12, 2010
A term for Canadians like "Yankee" to Americans. Comes from a WWI comic book called "Johnny Canuck" a Canadian soldier in the war. Also the name of Vancouver's NHL team
by mbh September 22, 2003
1. "Those Canucks visited from north of the border"
2. "People think all Canadians are lumberjacks, which isn't true. A lot of us play hockey instead."
3. "The Canucks had a great season, but lost to the Bruins in the cup final."
2. "People think all Canadians are lumberjacks, which isn't true. A lot of us play hockey instead."
3. "The Canucks had a great season, but lost to the Bruins in the cup final."
by Jquiet November 06, 2011
by left4ded March 23, 2005
There is a theory that the word is derived from Connaught, a term said to be given by French Canadians to the Irish. The Oxford Companion To The English Language (defines the term as): Canuck 1820’s. Probably from the Iroquoian "CANUCHSA", someone in a "KANATA"(village)…but possibly from Hawaiian "KANAKA" (man), through a pidgin used in the fur trade (in which Pacific islanders were employed), and taken into French as "CANAQUE", perhaps being originally applied to French Canadian canoemen. A nickname for a Canadian…but in the U.S. Northeast pejoratively referring to French Canadians.
by SMART CANUCK May 18, 2004