wantok

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɒntɒk/    美 /ˈwɑntɑk/|/-toʊk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A close comrade; a person with whom one has a strong social bond, usually based on a shared language. Papua-New-Guinea,sometimes,term-of-address
    — I refer to the classes of settlers thus distinguished as ‘wantok’ (although their members did not always have the same mother tongue), and the areas from which they came as ‘home areas’. […] There were 7 groups of wantok among the Situm block-holders and 4 among the Gobari holders.

词形变化

wantoks plural

词源

Borrowed from Tok Pisin wantok, from English one talk, that is, a speaker of the same language.
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