Bougainvillean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bougainvilleans
Etymology: From Bougainville + -an.
Senses: examples: text: “Nobody has ever asked us what we wanted,” a resentful Bougainvillean told a visitor, alluding to the copper development as well as the colonial history.
ref: 1971 July 25, Robert Trumbull, “Bougainvilleans Offered Shares in a Rich Mine”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
text: The island of Bougainville had its brief moment of international notoriety more than a decade ago. No conversation with a stranger seems to go very far before that moment is recalled, however, because to many Bougainvilleans it serves to illustrate how they came to terms with the evaporation of their traditional world.
ref: 1986 October 18, Barbara Crossette, “THE TALK OF KIETA; A 'Garden of Eden' in the South Pacific Is Resisting the Fruits of Television”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:
text: Prime Minister Paias Wingti acknowledges serious lapses of discipline by the military, but says claims of human rights abuses are exaggerated by “ignorant international do-gooders.” He insists that most Bougainvilleans support the government and are being terrorized by the rebels.
ref: 1994 July 24, Geoff Spencer, “Glint of Peace Blossoms in Tropical Bougainville”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
text: Most remarkable of all, though, the Bougainvilleans have refined coconut oil into a fuel for the few generators and trucks that still functioned on the island during the blockade.
ref: 1998 September 12, Dominic Rotheroe, “The Green Guerrillas”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2017:
text: They wore their best clothes, but the 100 Bougainvilleans who filed into Papua New Guinea’s Parliament on Jan. 23 carried only modest hopes. They had waited through 13 years and six wrecked truces for last year’s deal ending the secessionist rebellion on their island; […]
ref: 2002 January 25, Elizabeth Feizkhah, “Bougainville Cuts The Apron Strings”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
text: Local officials say the arrival of the mysterious foreigners boosted Musingku’s stature, and hence his potential to take more money from Bougainvilleans.
ref: 2004 December 14, Rory Callinan, “Jungle Fever”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
text: Many Bougainvilleans however feel a closer cultural affinity to the nearby Solomon Islands, with a strong provincial identity that differs from the tribal factions of other regions of Papua New Guinea.
ref: 2019 December 11, Faith Ridler, “Bougainville looks set to become the world's newest nation after voters backed independence from Papua New Guinea”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
text: Speaking in the native Tok Pisin language to several thousand ecstatic Bougainvilleans, many wearing traditional grass skirts, carrying spears and waving the islands' cobalt-blue flag, he emphasized the need for economic development.
ref: 2019 December 13, A. Odysseus Patrick, “Bloody past casts long shadow over Pacific islands poised to become world’s newest nation”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2019:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Bougainville.