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wahine|waˈhine, wɑːˈhiːnɪ|
Also 8 whinie, 9 whyenee, wiena, wyeena; wahini.
[Maori, Hawaiian, and other Polynesian languages: cf. vahine.]
1. N.Z. A Maori woman or wife.
1773W. Bayly Jrnl. in R. McNab Hist. Rec. N.Z. (1914) II. 204 Their Whinies (or women) are not regular featured in general as the men. 1807J. Savage Some Acct. N.Z. xi. 74 Wyeena, a woman. 1841N.Z. Jrnl. II. No. 32. 92/2 The chiefs and ‘Wienas’, or wives, partook. 1845E. J. Wakefield Adventure N.Z. I. ii. 29 Having enquired how many [wives] the Kings of England had, he laughed heartily at finding they were not so well provided, and repeatedly counted ‘four wahine’ (women) on his fingers. 1863V. Lush Jrnl. 28 Sept. (1971) 253 By noon the following day all the wahines had gone back to the Pah, cockles and all. 1911W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush viii. 128 Two or three Wahines ply the men lustily with..somewhat broad banter. 1944Coast to Coast 1943 105 You meet te nice girl at te dance. Plenty wahine! 1963Times 7 Feb. 12/3 The warriors and their wahine turned away ‘towards God’, as I was told by an old Maori who sat with me on the grass.
2. In Polynesia: = vahine.
1847H. Bingham Residence 21 Yrs. Sandwich Islands 188 Give our aloha to all the new teachers and their wahines. 1865H. W. Baxley What I saw on West Coast of S. & N. Amer. 515 The wahine disputes with them the palm of superiority.
3. Surfing slang. A girl surfer.
1963Surfing Yearbk. 43/2 Wahini, a girl surfer. 1966Surfer VII. 39 There are other things he did on the board, too, especially the full-moon tandem rides with wahines. 1971Studies in English (Univ. Cape Town) II. 26 Wahine meaning woman in Hawaiian, a term popular among writers, has never been used in Cape Town. |