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echo: bardroom
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from: Karen Rhodes
date: 2003-06-14 03:38:36
subject: Re: hey, all you linguists

At 10:26 AM 6/12/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:

>The folks we got Vivi from are looking for a call-name for "Li'l Miss
>Yellow."
>To match her =cough= vivacious personality, they are looking for a
>foreign word meaning "bossy" or "loud mouth" (or a
permutation thereby)
>
>Any suggestions?

How about Hawaiian?

"Bossy" is Ho'ohaku.  (The apostrophe is a glottal stop -- kind of like the
"uh" in "uh-oh")
(Ho-oh-HAH-koo)

I can't find a word for "loudmouth," but "loudspeaker"
is Ho'onui leo.
(Ho-oh-NOO-ee LAY-oh)

Veloci--aloha--raptor


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