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According to Charles Joret in his Dictionnaire du patois du Bessin, hōle, houōle has "the meaning of a hollow where fish hide", then for Fleury in Patois de la Hague, it means "a hole, a cavern, especially in rocks". In Maze, Dictionnaire du patois du Havre, the term means "a cavity where fish retreat". [1] Other forms include huole and hul.
The origins of the word predate the 1778 arrival of Captain James Cook, as recorded in several chants stemming from that time. [4] [5] The term was generally given to people of European descent; however, as more distinct terms began to be applied to individual European cultures and other non-European nations, the word haole began to refer mostly to Americans, including American Blacks (who ...
Haole is a Hawaiian term for individuals who are not Native Hawaiian, but typically used to describe white people) Kill Haole Day was discussed by the Hawaii State Legislature when debating hate crimes legislation in 1999, despite the lack of documented incidents.
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).
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For him, it's rather difficult to determine the etymology of the word "houle", which probably doesn't come from Breton. According to him and Françoise Morvan, the English word "hole" is the closest, since it has the same meaning. [1] [2] Subsequent etymological research indicates that the word "houle" is more likely to come from the Norman ...
A slang dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
When recounting his arrival in Vietnam in 1965, then-Corporal Joe Houle (director of the Marine Corps Museum of the Carolinas in 2002) said he saw no emotion in the eyes of his new squad: "The look in their eyes was like the life was sucked out of them". He later learned that the term for their condition was "the 1,000-yard stare".