Definition of Pakeha

1. Noun. (NZ) A non-Maori, especially a European New Zealander. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pakeha

1. a person who is not of Maori descent [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pakeha

pajaroello
pajeon
pajock
pajocke
pajockes
pajocks
pak
pak choi
pakalolo
pakalolos
pakamac
pakapoo
pakapoos
pakchoi
pakeha (current term)
pakehas
pakfong
pakfongs
pakicetid
pakicetids
pakka
pakol
pakols
pakora
pakoras
paks
paktong
paktongs
pal

Literary usage of Pakeha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Progress of New Zealand in the Century by Robert Francis Irvine, Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers (1902)
"A loose, straggling pakeha—a runaway from a ship, for instance, who had nothing ... My friend ate the pakeha, sure enough, and killed him before he ate him, ..."

2. The Boy Travellers in Australasia: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to by Thomas Wallace Knox (1889)
"You will wonder, as we did, what a pakeha Maori is. A rihl HA MAORI. ... A pakeha who had trade goods was always welcome, but a man who had nothing was of ..."

3. Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times by Frederick Edward Maning (1863)
"HERE I must remark that in those days the value of a pakeha to a tribe was ... A pakeha trader was therefore of a value say about twenty times his own ..."

4. Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old by Frederick Edward Maning (1863)
"The Market Price of a pakeha.—The Value of a pakeha " as such. ... HERE 1 must remark that in those days the value of a pakeha to a tribe was enormous. ..."

5. The History of Taranaki: A Standard Work on the History of the Province by Benjamin Wells (1878)
"Then came the pakeha hither by sea from other dwellings—they came to this land and the ... And the pakeha said, 'Are you willing to sell us this land ? ..."

6. New Zealand in Evolution: Industrial, Economic and Political by Guy Hardy Scholefield, William Pember Reeves (1909)
"... of the race threatened—The Treaty of Waitangi—The pre- pakeha Maori—A change in the savage economy—Relapse into barbarism—pakeha arts discarded—A native ..."

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