Dictionary

haole en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈhaʊ.li/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian haole.

Meanings

1. (Hawaii, derogatory, sometimes) A non-Hawaiian, especially a person of white European ancestry.
   • I had never known any haoles except Elmer and Marks and they were ice cold affairs. Everyone was always glad when their twice-a-month visit was pau. The very island seemed to sigh with relief […] 1946, Armine Von Tempski, Bright Spurs, page 122:
   • Commerce was flourishing in the kingdom and the rising merchant class was made up largely of haole rather than Hawaiians. 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 27:
   • And the white guy who ate Rice-A-Roni with butter was the haole who didn’t speak pidgin or eat real rice. 2009 January 18, Lois-ann Yamanaka, “This Man Is an Island”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

Kill Haole Day · haole time

Relateds

hapa haole