单词 | kahuna |
释义 | kahunan. a. A Hawaiian priest or minister; an expert or wise man. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > Hawaiian big kahuna1886 kahuna1886 1886 H. H. Gowen Let. 6 Dec. in Paradise of Pacific: Hawaii (1892) viii. 85 The Kahunas advised him to stave off the calamity by getting rid of the white power. 1915 W. A. Bryan Nat. Hist. Hawaii 54 A numerous class of more irregular priests or Kahunas, that were little more than sorcerers. 1920 Nature 15 July 628/1 A much longer paper..deals with the functions of the Kahuna ‘the priesthood called the Order of Sorcery’. The word in varying forms (tahuna, tahunga, tauna) is used throughout the Eastern Pacific to denote possessed of varying degrees of wisdom from priesthood to sorcery. 1948 R. S. Kuykendall & A. G. Day Hawaii i. 8 The kahunas (priests, doctors, sorcerers, navigators, and experts in various other lines) comprised a class closely associated with the chief. b. Surfing. (With capital initial.) A term adopted to designate a ‘god’ of surfing. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > of specific things > of other things belly-goda1620 wine-god1634 well-god1868 kahuna1962 1962 Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Oct. (Suppl.) 3/2 Kahuna..the god of the Californian and Hawaiian board-riders. 1970 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 1 25 The word ‘kahuna’ has been personified into Kahuna, the god of surfing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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