/hooh"cheuh nooh', hooh'cheuh nooh"/ , n. , pl. hoochinoos .
a type of distilled liquor made by Alaskan Indians.
Also, hootchinoo .
[ 1875-80, Amer.; orig. the name of a Tlingit village on Admiralty Island, Alaska, reputed to be a source of illicit liquor; alter. of Tlingit xucnu·wú lit., brown bear's fort ( xú·c brown bear + nu·w fortified place) ]