Iktsuarpok

Iktsuarpok (Inuit) You know that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet? This is the word for it. Mental Floss

Iktsuarpok (Inuit)A person who goes outside often to see if anyone is coming. Better Than English 

Iktsuarpok Inuit – “To go outside to check if anyone is coming. Quora

Iktsuarpok  An Inuit word for the feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet. Personal Shoplifter 

Iktsuarpok Have you ever gone outside just to check if anyone is coming? There’s a mighty fine Inuit word for that… “Iktsuarpok“ Untranslatable! First Edition Translations

Iktsuarpok From the Inuit, meaning to go outside to check if anyone is coming. Altalang

Oorxax and Iktsuarpok - There is, thank God, a word that sums up that annoying thing you do when your taxi is 20 minutes late and you’re too restless to wait for the doorbell to ring. It’s iktsuarpok – “to go outside often to see if someone is coming.  Shouting at Each Other

English Language Needs *Iktsuarpok*

Iktsuarpok: an Inuit word more useful to us citizens of the digital universe than umpteen expressions for varieties of snow.Here’s how the blogsite Mental Floss characterizes the expression:

“You know that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet? This is the word for it.”

And it occurs to me that iktsuarpok might enrich modern English, where it could just as easily refer to obsessive checking of e-mail and Facebook to see whether anyone’s contacted you in the past 30 seconds. Even the traditional Inuit did it, eh? Social networking and our obsessive-compulsive dipping for dopamine rools. Collin Piprell

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All of these websites… no one uses the word “Inuktitut” and no indication of where the word “iktsuarpok” comes from.  Canadian Inuit? Greenlandic? Alaskan? That’s a head-scratcher.

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