kaukau

Related to chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English.

kaukau

1. food

kaukau

1. to eat

   Horse no kaukau cow kaukau, cow kaukau cow kaukau!

   Horses don't eat cows' food, cows eat cows' food!

Borrowed from Tok Pisin kaukau.

kaukau

1. sweet potato

• Sálán má Worwor Talas uri tan Kuir Wor Sursurunga‎^[1], Papua New Guinea: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2018, page 295

 

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kaukau (n class, plural kaukau)

1. potato crisp, potato chip

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kaukau

1. potato or sweet potato
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎^[2], →ISBN, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

     After doing this, the two of them planted taro and bananas, and vegetables, pineapple, corn, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes as well.

• → Sursurunga: kaukau

From Proto-Polynesian *kau-kau. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻauʻau and Samoan 'au'au.

• IPA^(key): [ˈka.u ˈka.u]
• Hyphenation: ka‧u‧ka‧u

kaukau

1. (intransitive) to swim

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[3], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 145

kaukau

1. to wash