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how do you spell howley-
uh, no, the word's "haole", and that just means "white", and that's not hawaiian, that's pidgin.
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Mauifran answers below:
The answer above is incorrect!
Actually the true meaning of haole is "without breath" as our kupuna (ancestors) would rub their noses to share the breath that is life when greeting each other and the white men who came would not do this hence the description of them.
The new Hawaiian dictionaries now say white or for any foreigner but these are revisions that were made in later years that mark the sign of the changing times and is not the true meaning in our language. So it is not pidgin English but is a true word of our language.
Now if you want to talk slang then the word kama'aina is a prime example of a misused word for it means "born of the land" or a person that is native born and not a person that has lived in the islands for a number of years! That is what I like to call a Hawaii Visitors Bureau term that has been perpetuated a long time.
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