"palagi" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Samoan pālagi, variant of papālagi (“white person, European”). Compare earlier papalagi.",
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      "form": "palagis",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1979, Albert Wendt, Leaves of the Banyan Tree:",
          "text": "‘Serves him right for trying to act like a palagi!’ she muttered to herself.",
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          "ref": "1994, Jerome Gold, Hurricanes:",
          "text": "Then Ione said: \"Jerry, you are the only honest palagi I ever met.\"",
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          "ref": "2010 October 10, Oscar Kightley, New Zealand Herald:",
          "text": "After 170 years this is the closest Auckland has come to having a brown mayor. Sure he's a Palagi. But his name is Brown, he's run Manukau for a long time and there's heaps of brown people there so he's gladly owned by many in the Pacific Community.",
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        "A white person; a Caucasian."
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        "(Western Polynesia, New Zealand) A white person; a Caucasian."
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          "word": "papalagi"
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      "ipa": "/ˈpʌːlʌŋi/",
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        "New-Zealand"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/pʌˈlʌŋ(ɡ)i/",
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        "New-Zealand"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑːləŋi/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pəˈlaŋi/",
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  "word": "palagi"
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          "ref": "1994, Jerome Gold, Hurricanes:",
          "text": "Then Ione said: \"Jerry, you are the only honest palagi I ever met.\"",
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        },
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        "New-Zealand"
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      "word": "papalagi"
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