didiman

D2I1D2I1M3A1N1

noun

A male worker in the department of agriculture.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

noundidiman (plural didimen)

plural didimen

  1. 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 Courier
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    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 Study

    The 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

  1. Tok Pisindidiman
  2. Englishdidiman

From Tok Pisin didiman.

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APA

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