blakskin

Tok Pisin: blak + skin.

See original Mihalic entry.

Modifier forms

  1. with a particularly dark Melanesian skin complexion

Noun forms

  1. Kind of person: a black person - with some emphasis on identity but possibly more on skin colour ® Afrika, Amerikan nigro, blakman
    i bin i gat blakskin insait tu there were black faces in there as well

  1. Ethnic identifier: a Papua New Guinean with a particularly dark Melanesian skin complexion, a Bougainvillean ® retskin, waitskin

  1. Kind of person: blakskin man / meri a man / woman with a particularly dark Melanesian skin complexion
    wanpela blakskin man i kam a blackskinned fellow turned up

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