da kine/da kind, in Dictionary of American Regional English: Introduction and A-C, By Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Joan Houston Hall, Contributor Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Edition 6, (Harvard University Press, 1985), →ISBN.In HCE (Hawaiian Creole English), da kine is used generally to mean almost anything, particularly when referring to a thing whose name is not known or whose name does not come immediately to mind. ( Hawaii ) The kind of thing we're discussing. cookies, butter cookies, peanut butter cookies, hawaiian cookies, macadamia nut cookies, school cookies, chocolate chip cookies, shortbread cookies.English Alternative forms įrom Hawaiian Pidgin English da (the definite article, from English the) + kine (used as an intensifier, to mean "type of", and many other purposes, from English kind).
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