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kahuna|kəˈhuːnə|
[Hawaiian.]
a. A Hawaiian priest or minister; an expert or wise man.
b. Surfing. (With capital initial.) A term adopted to designate a ‘god’ of surfing.
1886H. H. Gowen Let. 6 Dec. in Paradise of Pacific: Hawaii (1892) viii. 85 The Kahunas advised him to stave off the calamity by getting rid of the white power. 1915W. A. Bryan Nat. Hist. Hawaii 54 A numerous class of more irregular priests or Kahunas, that were little more than sorcerers. 1920Nature 15 July 628/1 A much longer paper..deals with the functions of the Kahuna ‘the priesthood called the Order of Sorcery’. The word in varying forms (tahuna, tahunga, tauna) is used throughout the Eastern Pacific to denote possessed of varying degrees of wisdom from priesthood to sorcery. 1948Kuykendall & Day Hawaii i. 8 The kahunas (priests, doctors, sorcerers, navigators, and experts in various other lines) comprised a class closely associated with the chief. 1962Austral. Women's Weekly (Suppl.) 24 Oct. 3/2 Kahuna..the god of the Californian and Hawaiian board-riders. 1970Studies in English (Univ. Cape Town) I. 25 The word ‘kahuna’ has been personified into Kahuna, the god of surfing. |