Meanings
plural okoles
- Hawaiianus; butt
She said he had too cute an okole to park it in a wheel chair where no wahine would ever get to see it again.
2011, Joseph Flynn, Nailed2 more examples
To relieve the pain, I was given daily shots of morphine and since I didn't have an okole any more, I had to take all the shots in my arms.
2002, Louis Baldovi, A Foxhole View: Personal Accounts of Hawaii's Korean War VeteransTwo pillows behind her back propped her up while another beneath her shielded her okole from the sprung springs of the old couch. Positioned thus, Lehua suckled her newborn son.
2012, Michael Herr, The Old Queen and the Maui Maiden, page 13
Origin
- Hawaiianʻōkole
- Englishokole
From Hawaiian ʻōkole.
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