cheechako

• chechako
• chechaquo
• cheechaco

Borrowed from Chinook Jargon cheechako.

cheechako (plural cheechakos or cheechakoes)

1. Someone new to Alaska or the Yukon; originally, a gold rush newcomer.
   • 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 41:

     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.

• tenderfoot
• greenhorn

• sourdough

chee (“new, lately”) +‎ chako (“to come, to arrive”)

cheechako

1. newcomer, stranger