Thread: lingo

Alright everyone please chime in. Being in Hawaii, we use lingo from about 6 or 7 languages, making a mess of the english language. So to mess it up even more, I'd like to get to know the regional slang that you use.

Also to our shave brothers in the UK, NZ, and AU. Please teach me some of the more colorful phrases you have. I need to replace some of the ones that I'm made habit in the boozing business...and hey...what does "Bob's your uncle" mean?

Brendon:

Here's a start:

http://straightrazorpalace.com/showthread.php?t=10126

sweet, thanks

"Bob's your uncle" basically means you got something the easy waay.

X

Originally Posted by custommartini

Alright everyone please chime in. Being in Hawaii, we use lingo from about 6 or 7 languages, making a mess of the english language. So to mess it up even more, I'd like to get to know the regional slang that you use.

Also to our shave brothers in the UK, NZ, and AU. Please teach me some of the more colorful phrases you have. I need to replace some of the ones that I'm made habit in the boozing business...and hey...what does "Bob's your uncle" mean?

Brendon,
It's been over 20 years, but the last time I was in Hawaii, I found out that I am a howlie? I think that means a white tourist, right?
-Fred

Originally Posted by cudahogs

Brendon,
It's been over 20 years, but the last time I was in Hawaii, I found out that I am a howlie? I think that means a white tourist, right?
-Fred

Haouli it means "white man out of breath." It has a semi-negative connotation, depending how you use it. I can be used jokingly however and can also be friendly... a flexible word indeed.
The word "haouli" came from the days that Capt. James Cook first landed in Hawaii. The Locals saw the white sails (a marking of Lono, a powerful god that takes human form at times) and thought that the men were gods. Afterall, who but a god could survive death (the white men looked like they had been dead...the natives had never seen white people before)

Originally Posted by xman

"Bob's your uncle" basically means you got something the easy waay.

X

Thank you X, That one's been confusing me for a while

Wow, the word has a history, who knew? Thanks Brendon.
-Fred

here just about all the words have some sort of history. In the plantation days, portugese, japanese, chinese, filipinos, hawaiian, koreans and the like all worked togeather and the languages merged, creating a new language "pidgin english". Really ugly English, so much as to be completely baffling to the uninitiated.

some others:

Budda head: not used anymore, but it meant japanese person

Pake (pah kay): chinese person; cheap person (originated as a mispronounciation of the chinese word for father)

Moke : Hawaiian person...not a good idea to use this one

Sole (So Lay): Samoan...not too bad, just don't call a samoan sloe unless you know him

buk buk (book book): Filipino

Brendon, if you don't mind me asking ---are you of Hawaiian native "stock" or are you of European --or something more complex than this?


Justin