singelman

There is a possibility for confusion here. Mihalic has skelman and senkelboi, both meaning an unmarried, unemployed young man who lives on the providence of others. He sought the etymologies skelman = skel + man and Schenken (German: ‘gift’) + man

Mühlhäusler (1979:201) finds Mihalic derivation of senkelboifrom German Schenken, ‘gift’, ‘extremely dubious’.

‘single’ + man.

® senkelboi, singelboi, skel, skelman.

Noun forms

1. Kind of person: a young, unmarried man

Noun combination forms

2. singelman haus Among the Boazi of the Middle Fly, not notably speakers of Tok Pisin, an open-sided day meeting house used by adult men that formerly might have had as permanent residents young single men

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