Canuck is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Canuck meaning
- A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent.
- A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
Synonyms of Canuck
Using Canuck
- The main meaning on this page is: A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent. | A Canadian person; specifically (archaic), a French Canadian person; a pea-souper; also (obsolete) a Canadian person of other non-English descent. | A member of the Vancouver Canucks professional ice hockey team belonging to the National Hockey League.
- Useful related words include: french canadian.
- In the example corpus, canuck often appears in combinations such as: canuck the.
Context around Canuck
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Canuck
- In this selection, "canuck" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, struggling, first, johnny, organization, wins and power stand out and add context to how "canuck" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a johnny canuck logo of and also landed canuck wits like. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "canuck" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with canuck
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Why watch: Trio of Canuck wins over Avs? (8 words)
Fellow Canuck and bandleader Paul Shaffer came over and gave Aykroyd a big hug. (14 words)
It’s not the first time a Canuck has made headlines for inappropriate gnashing. (14 words)
Vancouver Courier reporter Mike Howell said he saw the bird — which had a red tag on its leg as does Canuck — swoop in and pick up an object from inside an area cordoned off by police tape. (37 words)
And the struggling Canuck power play, driven by making plays downhill from the left side of the ice, scored once and looked dangerous for nearly all of its 6:31 of advantage time. (33 words)
The novella, completed in five days in Mexico during December 1952, is a telling example of Kerouac's attempts at writing in his mother tongue, a language he often called Canuck French. (32 words)
Why watch: Trio of Canuck wins over Avs? (8 words)
Example sentences (13)
It’s not too complicated if you are committed to a rebuild but as we know, that’s a big ‘if’ when it comes to the Canuck organization.
Why watch: Trio of Canuck wins over Avs?
And the struggling Canuck power play, driven by making plays downhill from the left side of the ice, scored once and looked dangerous for nearly all of its 6:31 of advantage time.
In 2019, Pettersson would go on to become the first Canuck to win the Calder Trophy since Pavel Bure did it in 1992.
In the early 1960s, when the Canucks played in the Western Hockey League, the team adopted a Johnny Canuck logo of a skating lumberjack.
Canuck the crow, Vancouver's most notorious bird, is being accused of flying away with a knife from a crime scene.
Fellow Canuck and bandleader Paul Shaffer came over and gave Aykroyd a big hug.
He also landed Canuck wits like then 17-year-old Jim Carrey, Russell Peters, Mike Wilmot and Pete Zedlacher before they became big stars.
Linda Martin snapped this selfie with Canuck the Crow during a visit to his East Vancouver neighbourhood.
Vancouver Courier reporter Mike Howell said he saw the bird — which had a red tag on its leg as does Canuck — swoop in and pick up an object from inside an area cordoned off by police tape.
It’s not the first time a Canuck has made headlines for inappropriate gnashing.
It therefore includes words such as mukluk, Canuck, bluff and grow op, but does not list common core words such as desk, table or car.
The novella, completed in five days in Mexico during December 1952, is a telling example of Kerouac's attempts at writing in his mother tongue, a language he often called Canuck French.
Common combinations with canuck
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: