bosboi

See original Mihalic entry.

Noun forms

1. Kind of person: during colonial times, a native overseer, a European’s head labourer or carrier, a European’s right-hand man ® boi
   em i stap bosboi bilong Masta Mick he was in charge of Mick’s labourers

2. Kind of person: in the Yali Movement of the Rai Coast, Madang Province, 1945-1950, ex-soldiers appointed by Yali to act as village supervisors; originally officially sanctioned over a wide area to act as a third village official for the purposes of for post-war reconstruction, the bossboys between Saidor and Mindiri came to become an alternate governing structure under Yali’s direct command (Lawrence 1964), known as lo bos ® lo_bos

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