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‖ kanaka
(ˈkænəkə, in Australia improperly kəˈnækə)
Also canaker, kanaker, kanacka.
[Hawaiian kanaka = Samoan, Tongan, and Maori tangata man.]
A native of the South Sea Islands, esp. one employed in Queensland as a labourer on the sugar plantations. Also attrib. Also, the Hawaiian language (obs.).
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xx. 59 The Catalina had several Kanakas on board. 1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan vi. 140 The Sandwich Islanders—or Kanakas, as they are now familiarly known to the sailors and traders. 1866‘Mark Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 68, k and t are the same in the Kanaka alphabet. Ibid. A white chief clerk..handed the document to Bill Ragsdale..who translated and clattered it off in Kanaka. 1890Boldrewood Col. Reformer xv. 175 You must get a Kanaka crew that can't be drowned. 1893R. Kipling Banjo Song, We've shouted on seven-ounce nuggets, We've starved on a kanaka's pay.
Hence Kanakaland, Queensland; also Kanakalander, an inhabitant of Queensland. Obs.
1945Baker Austral. Lang. x. 186 Kanakalanders... Used during the closing decades of the last century when many Pacific island natives were imported. Ibid., 187 Queensland: Bananaland, Kanakaland (now obsolete) and the Nigger State (now obsolete). |
