bule
Americannoun
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bules
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bule
First recorded in 2000–05; from Indonesian
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“She taught me how to be a woman: ‘Yeah, Julia, if you’re with a bule, be like this, be like that,’ ” she recalled.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2010
Ex. kodigi-tsi from kodige, plate; bulitsi from bule, garden.
From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
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