Hawaiian

Ha·wai·ian

[huh-wahy-uhn, -wah-yuhn]
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to Hawaii or the Hawaiian Islands.
noun
2.
a native or inhabitant of Hawaii or the Hawaiian Islands.
3.
the aboriginal language of Hawaii, a Polynesian language.

Origin:
1815–25; Hawaii + -an

pro-Ha·wai·ian, adjective
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Hawaiian (həˈwaɪən) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
1.  of or relating to Hawaii, its people, or their language
 
n
2.  a native or inhabitant of Hawaii, esp one descended from Melanesian or Tahitian immigrants
3.  a language of Hawaii belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family

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Hawaiian is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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