cheechako

plural cheechakos · plural cheechakoes · alternative chechako · alternative chechaquo · alternative cheechaco · alternative cheechaker

1. Someone new to Alaska or the Yukon; originally, a gold rush newcomer.

   And now this blonde, from Outside no loess, the rawest of cheechakos, the most innocent of Alaskan naifs, a literal babe in the woods, had asked a few simple questions and gotten the whole story, all of it, simply and succinctly and more, gotten it without attitude or resentment.

   1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 41

   Synonyms: tenderfoot, greenhorn