kahuna
[k?'hun?]
- n. 魔法師;卡胡納(人名)
中文詞源
kahuna 負責人
來自夏威夷語,智者,法師,引申詞義重要的人,負責人。
英文詞源
- kahuna (n.)
- 1886, in a report in English by the Hawaiian government, which defines the word as "doctor and sorcerer," from Hawaiian, where it was applied as well to priests and navigators. In surfer slang, for "a god of surfing," it is attested from 1962 (but big kahuna in same sense is said to date from 1950s.