haole

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Hawaiian haole. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈhaʊ.li/ Rhymes: -aʊli Hyphenation: hao‧le === Noun === haole (plural haole or haoles) (Hawaii, sometimes derogatory) A non-Hawaiian, especially a person of white European ancestry. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “haole”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “haole”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “haole, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. === Anagrams === a**hole, a-hole, ahole == Hawaiian == === Etymology === Unknown. The word predates contact with Europeans. A popular folk etymology analyzes the word as hā (“breath”) +‎ ʻole (“not”), referencing the fact that foreigners did not know the traditional honi greeting, which involves simultaneous inhalation. However, such a derivation is unlikely: haole lacks the long ā and glottal stop that would be expected if this were the origin of the word. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhao̯.le/, [ˈhɐo̯.le] === Noun === haole foreigner Caucasian Englishman, Englishwoman, American === Verb === haole (stative) foreign (stative) Caucasian, white (stative) English, American ʻōlelo haole — English language === References ===