bougainvillean
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3ADJ.
old, resentful
VERB + BOUGAINVILLEAN
recalled, wanted
BOUGAINVILLEAN + NOUN
childhood, customs, traditions, visitor
Definitions
noun
A native or inhabitant of Bougainville.
“Nobody has ever asked us what we wanted,” a resentful Bougainvillean told a visitor, alluding to the copper development as well as the colonial history.
The island of Bougainville had its brief moment of international notoriety more than a decade ago. No conversation with a stranger seems to go very far before that moment is recalled, however, because to many Bougainvilleans it serves to illustrate how they came to terms with the evaporation of their traditional world.
adj
Of, from or relating to Bougainville.
Slipping into a reflective mood, Mr. Kinna, 36 years old, recalled his Bougainvillean childhood.
March is also ideal for keeping tabs on the humpback whale, in many ways similar to surfers, who swim south from the Arctic and hang out in Hawaii for most of the winter to feed, frolic and fornicate. Of all mammals, they probably come closest to living out the Bougainvillean dream.
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6“Nobody has ever asked us what we wanted,” a resentful Bougainvillean told a visitor, alluding to the copper development as well as the colonial history.
WiktionaryThe island of Bougainville had its brief moment of international notoriety more than a decade ago. No conversation with a stranger seems to go very far before that moment is recalled, however, because
WiktionaryPrime Minister Paias Wingti acknowledges serious lapses of discipline by the military, but says claims of human rights abuses are exaggerated by “ignorant international do-gooders.” He insists that mo
WiktionarySlipping into a reflective mood, Mr. Kinna, 36 years old, recalled his Bougainvillean childhood.
WiktionaryMarch is also ideal for keeping tabs on the humpback whale, in many ways similar to surfers, who swim south from the Arctic and hang out in Hawaii for most of the winter to feed, frolic and fornicate.
WiktionaryP.N.G.’s Minister for Inter-Government Relations, Sir Peter Barter, described the coronation as a “mockery of Bougainvillean traditions and customs.”
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