kanakan.
/kəˈnakə/, /ˈkanəkə/, U.S. /kəˈnɑkə/ A native of the South Sea Islands, esp. one employed in Queensland as a labourer on the sugar plantations. Also attributive. Also, the Hawaiian language (obsolete).
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the world > people > ethnicities > Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian > [noun]
Polynesian1807
Alfur1814
Oceanian1822
Tikopian1832
kanaka1840
Alfurian1842
Melanesian1845
Cook Islander1888
Micronesian1900
Pasifika1997
the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > on sugar plantation
kanaka1840
the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > Polynesian > Hawaiian
kanaka1840
Hawaiian1864
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xx. 59 The Catalina had several Kanakas on board.
1857 R. Tomes Americans in Japan vi. 140 The Sandwich Islanders—or Kanakas, as they are now familiarly known to the sailors and traders.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 68 k and t are the same in the Kanaka alphabet.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 68 A white chief clerk..handed the document to Bill Ragsdale..who translated and clattered it off in Kanaka.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xv. 175 You must get a Kanaka crew that can't be drowned.
1893 R. Kipling Song of Banjo We've shouted on seven-ounce nuggets, We've starved on a kanaka's pay.
Derivatives
Kanakaland n. Queensland.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Australasia > [noun] > Australia > Queensland
Sunshine State1887
Bananaland1898
Kanakaland1945
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. x. 187 Queensland: Bananaland, Kanakaland (now obsolete) and the Nigger State (now obsolete).
Kanakalander n. an inhabitant of Queensland.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of
bushboya1834
Melbournite1838
Melburnian1838
bushman1846
Vandemonian1852
scrubber1859
Queenslander1860
Victorian1862
Sydneysider1865
Centralian1875
Waler1880
Territorian1882
mutton-bird1892
bushy1896
sand-groper1896
tothersider1896
crow-eater1899
Bananalander1900
outbacker1900
Tassie1905
groper1924
Tasmanian1934
mutton-bird eater1941
Top-Ender1941
Kanakalander1945
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. x. 186 Kanakalanders... Used during the closing decades of the last century when many Pacific island natives were imported.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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