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The dictionary then turns around and uses "da kine" (often a notoriously difficult word for non-Pidgin speakers to understand) in some of the definitions of other words. Haole is another word covered in the book. [4] The authors of Pidgin to Da Max are not originally from Hawaii, and Simonson admits to not speaking Pidgin all that well.
"Da Kine" is cited as the callsign meaning of KINE-FM 105.1, a Honolulu-based Hawaiian music radio station. "Da Kine" is a song from the 1999 album Shaka the Moon by Hawaiian singer Darrel Labrado (then 14 years old). The song whimsically explains the meaning and uses of the phrase of the same name. The song gained local popularity. [10]
Hawaiian Pidgin has been influenced by many different languages, including Portuguese, Hawaiian, American English, and Cantonese. [12] As people of other backgrounds were brought in to work on the plantations, Hawaiian Pidgin acquired even more words from languages such as Japanese, Ilocano, Okinawan and Korean.
Getty Images The Garden Isle of Kauai, and for that matter all of Hawaii, has a local language all its own. A form of pigeon English, mixed with select words from other dialects, creates the ...
The term came to be used in a more general linguistic sense to refer to any simplified language by the late 19th century. [8] [9] A popular false etymology for pidgin is English pigeon, a bird sometimes used for carrying brief written messages, especially in times prior to modern telecommunications. [8] [10]
(Hawaii) Used in the State of Hawaii meaning 'From Big Island'. The Big Island is slang for the island of Hawai'i in the Hawaiian island chain. (Saskatchewan) "Fucking Big Indian", an unusually large native, insinuating that the person is not a pure native.
The term refers to Japanese women's legs which seem short and stubby. This is rumored to be the result of sitting on the floor for long periods. The Japanese equivalent is daikon ashi. Giri-giri: The cowlick. Giri giri is an onomatopoeic word with a different meaning in standard
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).