Meanings
plural didimen
- Papua New GuineaA male worker in the department of agriculture.
It has been Noah Saigaiur’s dream to become a didiman or an agriculture officer one day.
2021 January 6, Janet Kari, “Didiman’s diary dream comes true”, in Papua New Guinea Post Courier2 more examples
In 1957 the didimen assisted in placing markers for planting cocoa on village cooperative demonstration plots.
1980, Michael A. H. B. Walter, Cattle Ranches are about People: Social Science Dimensions of a Commercial Feasibility StudyThe last destination was by road to Poro, a subdistrict with another, larger, more modern cacao fermentary, and a nursery where didimen raised cacao, citrus and other plants to supply local farmers.
2015, Trish Nicholson, Inside the Crocodile: The Papua New Guinea Journals
Origin
- Tok Pisindidiman
- Englishdidiman
From Tok Pisin didiman.
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