A slang or colloquial term in Canadian English, particularly in British Columbia and the Yukon, sometimes referring to an inexperienced person or newcomer.
Possibly derived from 'chechako' or related Chinook Jargon terms. Canadian frontier slang with disputed etymology.
Cheecha and chechako are frontier slang from the Yukon Gold Rush era, and they perfectly capture how isolated communities create their own vocabulary to describe social roles—every frontier needed a word for 'greenhorn who doesn't know how to survive here yet.'
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