Malamute (noun)
mal-a-myoot
one of an Alaskan breed of large dogs having a dense, coarse coat, raised originally by the Inuit for drawing sleds.
First recorded in 1895–1900. Sometimes capitalized, malamute is from the Inupiaq word malimiut.
Malimiut is a name for the local groups of Inupiaq peoples of the Kotzebue Sound region in what is now Western Alaska, who bred such dogs.
Example sentences
“Bursting through the screen door, the malamute sprinted to greet us as we came up the walkway.”
