Plantations across the world normally consisted of foreign laborers, but none as diverse as early Hawaiian plantations. This form of pidgin is usually restricted to business and differs from the plantation pidgin we here in Hawaiʻi have been exposed to. Given the language barrier, pidgin was developed in order for the two groups to conduct business. The etymology of pidgin can be traced to the early Chinese trades with East European merchants. SMALL KINE STORY ON TALKINʻ PIDGIN ( A brief synopsis about Hawaiian Pidgin English) And recently, I became compelled to discover what had led us to speak in Hawaiian Pidgin English. Nevertheless, nothing happens without reason. I accepted it because I heard it all around me. Hawaiian Pidgin English is what we speak. And my personal favorite… “And Wot?! Hah?! Like troʻ?! We go brah?!” was how someone would suggest that we engage in a physical fight. “Ho, I tink dat buggah crack block aʻready” was my cousinʻs reasoning about someone who had lost their mind.

n., A bundle of tapa pieces ( moʻomoʻo).“Keoni, go insai dea anʻ peel da lights foʻ Aunty one fass one.” was my Auntyʻs request for me to go into the house and quickly turn off the lights. n., A unit of measure equal to half a span (kīkoʻo).ħ. n., Chalk, chalky white earth, as of limestone.Ħ.

Poho pono nā peʻa i ka makani (song), the sails are well filled with wind.ĥ.

vt., To belly out, puff out, as clothes on a line or a sail to hollow or dub out, as a wooden container.

nvt., Patch, as in clothes a wooden patch inserted into a calabash, as to mend a break to patch, mend.Ĥ.

Poho ʻinamona, stone mortar for grinding cooked kukui nuts and salt into a relish to mix the relish.ģ.nvt., Mortar to knead, as bread or poi (Kep. Poho kai, hollow where sea remains at low tide.Ģ.

n., Hollow or palm of the hand, hollow of the foot, depression, hollow container, receptacle, pouch, as for tobacco box, as for matches hollow of a canoe, divided into three parts (mua, waena, hope).

Poho hawaiian slang