- kahuna
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noun
Etymology: Hawaiian
Date: 1875
1. a Hawaiian shaman
2. a preeminent person or thing ; big gun <the industry's big kahuna, with…57 percent of the market — A. E. Serwer>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
kahuna
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kahuna — 1886, in a report in English by the Hawaiian government, which defines the word as doctor and sorcerer, from Hawaiian, where it was applied as well to priests and navigators. In surfer slang, for a god of surfing, it is attested from 1962 (but… … Etymology dictionary
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kahuna — UK [kəˈhuːnə] / US [kəˈhunə] noun [countable] Word forms kahuna : singular kahuna plural kahunas informal someone who is very important or who knows a lot, especially about computers … English dictionary
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kahuna — /kəˈhunə/ (say kuh hoohnuh) noun 1. (in traditional Hawaiian culture) a sorcerer. –phrase 2. the big kahuna, Colloquial the leader or boss. {Hawaiian} …
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