pasindia

English: ‘passenger’.

See Wardlow (2002) for an acount of pasindia meri in Tari.

See original Mihalic entry. See List discussion. .

Noun forms

  1. Kind of person: passenger
    haumas pasindia i sindaun long bas? how many passengers are there in the bus?
    ol pasindia mas pasim sia let passengers must fasten seatbelts

  1. Kind of person: a traveller
    haus pasindia a guest house (care must be taken to distinguish from its other sense)

  1. Kind of person: a ‘passenger’, someone who contributes nothing
    em i pasindia tasol he is a parasite

  1. Kind of person: a vagrant, a drifter ® blok
    ol i no asples, ol i pasindia tasol they are not from this place, they are just vagrants

Noun combination forms

  1. Sexual activity: related to promiscuous sex ® haiwei, pamuk meri
    pasindia meri (a) a girl not mindful of who she is seen with, (b) a prostitute
    haus pasindia a brothel

Verb phrase forms

  1. Sexual activity: pasindia raun to sleep around
    meri i pasindia raun na nau kisim sik AIDS the woman slept around and caught AIDS

  1. Politics: pasindia raun to jump from faction to faction opportunistically (i.e. the expectation is that this is done for money, just as sex workers are paid)
    memba i no save singaun gut, em i save pasindia raun the MP will not settle down to work, he is a poltiical opportunist

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