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haole Hawaiian.|ˈhaʊlɪ, ˈhaɔli|
[Native word.]
One who is not a native Hawaiian; a white man. Also attrib. or as adj.
[1825W. Ellis Jrnl. Tour Hawaii vii. 151 We had escaped, only because we were haore, (foreigners.) No Hawaiian..would have done so with impunity.] 1843J. J. Jarves Scenes Sandwich Islands iii. 104 One brings vegetables, another fish..in short, any thing and every thing which they suppose the haole, (foreigner,) to want. 1866‘Mark Twain’ Lett. fr. Hawaii (1967) 161 But the thing was tabu..to foreigners—haoles. Ibid. 202 To the natives all whites are haoles—how-ries—that is, strangers, or more properly, foreigners. 1905Daily Chron. 24 June 3/1 Stevenson ‘fell in love’ with the Polynesians,..and was consequently unjust to the haoles, or white people. c1938L. Mumford Report on Honolulu in City Development (1946) 75 A lasting link between their ancient ways and the less primitive life lived by the various haole groups that have followed. 1954Ellery Queen's Myst. Mag. Oct. 8/2 The haole—white—characters are fiction. The Hawaiians..are authentic. 1970Language XLVI. 981 Ever⁓increasing pressure for the use of English from ‘haoles’ (main-land whites) and others. |