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hoʻohaole

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

To act like a white person, to ape the white people, or assume airs of superiority [often said disparagingly, especially of half-whites].

  • Related:
    • Hoʻohaole ʻia, Americanized, Europeanized; to have become like a white person or have adopted the ways of a white man.

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