| 释义 |
kai N.Z.|kai|
[Maori.]
Food, victuals.
[1838J. S. Polack New Zealand I. 289 There is a much larger variety of this esculent [sc. potato] called kai pakehá, or white man's food. ]1845E. J. Wakefield Adventure N.Z. I. 265 The determination of the natives not to move till all the kai was exhausted. 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 134 Kai, food. (A Maori word, used among the New Zealand troops in the War.) 1927T. E. Donne The Maori, Past & Present 95, I kep in te whare for tree day, but no kai (food). 1952R. Finlayson Schooner came to Atia iii. 17, I can take Tua smokes and good kai. 1970N.Z. Listener 12 Oct. 12/1 Some kai would go nicely now. Empty bellies do things to people.
So (in reduplicated form) kaikai |kaikai|, food; feasting; a feast.
[1807J. Savage Some Acct. N.Z. xi. 75 Kiki..food.] 1845E. J. Wakefield Adventure N.Z. I. 29 He explained..that there would be much kai kai or feasting. 1894Stevenson & Osbourne Ebb-Tide i. iv. 60 There shall be no growling about the kaikai, which will be above allowance. 1901A. C. Haddon Head-Hunters 39 One afternoon some of us went to a kaikai, or feast. 1941Baker N.Z. Slang 26 In early records the ‘pidgin’ forms kaikai or kiki are often discovered. 1969Coast to Coast 1967–68 48 No, she didn't say tucker. The kanakas said kai-kai. |