pakeha

Speech parts

1. pakeha - Noun

2. Pakeha - Proper noun

Meaning

pakeha (plural pakehas or pakeha)

(New Zealand) A non-Maori, especially a European New Zealander.

Pakeha

(New Zealand) A non-Maori, especially a European New Zealander.

Phrases with the word

Examples

That caused a furious response from welfare advocates who said it created a "two-tier" welfare system - one for long-term, poor families, many of them Māori, and another for middle-class, mainly Pakeha families hit hard by Covid. Source: Internet

Maori and Pakeha English: Some New Zealand Social Dialect Data. Source: Internet

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