Kanaka

Word KANAKA
Character 6
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Definitions and meanings of "Kanaka"

What do we mean by kanaka?

A person of Hawaiian descent.

A South Pacific Islander, especially a labourer in Australia or Canada.

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The word "kanaka" in example sentences

Also, at the moment of delivering each kick, he called the kanaka a black heathen. ❋ Jack London (1896)

I aku o Aiwohikupua i kona Kuhina, "Heaha keia e hoi ole mai nei na kanaka a kaua e hoouna aku nei?" ❋ Martha Warren Beckwith (1915)

Without doubt I had seen him with the rest of the kanaka crew on board, but I had not consciously been aware of his existence, for the Petite Jeanne was rather overcrowded. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I heard him scream, and at the same time I saw him kick the kanaka. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Worse, as he looked, they were starting to come in through the kanaka surf. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some time he made kanaka plenty cross along him and kanaka want 'm kill m, kanaka he think devil-devil and kanaka he hear that fella mate sing out, Yah! ❋ Unknown (2010)

You fella kanaka kill 'm plenty fella white man long time before. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Plenty fella kanaka we get 'm canoe, plenty fella canoe, we go catch' m that fella ship. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So I called to the kanaka to come to me, and proceeded to share the hatch cover with him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"What name you fella kanaka all the same pickaninny?" ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unable to remain flung up on the beach, pounded ever back toward the beach by the perpetual shoreward rush of the kanaka surf, the up-piled water escaped to the sea by way of the channel and in the form of under-tow along the bottom under the breakers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You fella kanaka just like 'm dog -- plenty fright along that fella trader. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tell the white man there's pearl shell in some lagoon infested by ten-thousand howling cannibals, and he'll head there all by his lonely, with half a dozen kanaka divers and a tin alarm clock for chronometer, all packed like sardines on a commodious, five-ton ketch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He clutched the kanaka steersman with his other hand; and just at that moment the schooner flung down to starboard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In addition to her eight or ten kanaka seamen, her white captain, mate, and supercargo, and her six cabin passengers, she sailed from Rangiroa with something like eighty-five deck passengers -- Paumotans and Tahitians, men, women, and children each with ❋ Unknown (2010)

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