Papuan

Papuan
Pap•u•an
[[t]ˈpæp yu ən[/t]] adj.
1) peo of or pertaining to Papua or Papua New Guinea, or the inhabitants of either
2) peo of or pertaining to the island of New Guinea or its indigenous inhabitants
3) peo of, pertaining to, or denoting the group of more than 700 languages, belonging to an as yet undetermined number of language families, spoken on New Guinea, several islands of E Indonesia, and parts of the Bismarck Archipelago, Bougainville, and the W Solomon Islands
4) peo a native or inhabitant of Papua or Papua New Guinea
5) peo
a) a member of any of the indigenous peoples of New Guinea
b) a speaker of a Papuan language
6) peo the Papuan languages collectively
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Etymology: 1805–15

From formal English to slang. 2014.

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