pakeha

plural pakehas

1. Alternative letter-case form of Pakeha.

   The same director's film The Quiet Earth (1984), from a novel by Craig Harrison, lands us back in futuristic territory with a pakeha "mad scientist" (plus female pendant for "mateship" interest) and a Vietnam-scarred Maori guerrilla surviving a cosmic catastrophe.

   1996, Eckhard Breitinger (editor), Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression, page 214

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   i.e. they'll spend the first four hours enthusiastic as can be, then get bored, want some kai, go down to the local fish and chip shop & bottle store & spend the rest of the episode telling drunken stories of how they used to steal from the "pakeha that owned the store on the corner" and about days spent down at the social welfare office.

   2008, RK, “Maori TV”, in nz.general (Usenet)

alternative pakeha

1. New ZealandA non-Maori, especially a European New Zealander.First known use 19th c.

   They were the kind of Pākehā who, in the eyes of the Protestant missionaries, set a bad example to Māori.

   2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 134

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   Henry asked if missionaries were now active on the Chathams at which Mr Evans & Mr D’Arnoq exchanged looks, & the former informed us, ‘Nay, the Maori don’t take kindly to us Pakeha spoiling their Moriori with too much civilization.’

   2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN