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poaka

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Maori poaka (“pig”).

Noun

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poaka (plural poakas)

  1. (New Zealand, among the Maori people) A pig.
    • 1904, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives..., New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 62:
      When I write that scores of houses have been burnt, whole villages renovated, kaingas fenced in, poakas and dogs fenced out […]

Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *puaka.

Noun

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poaka

  1. pig
  2. pork

Derived terms

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