More pidgin

Sly mongoose: Clever fellow
To spark: To see/look
Stink eye: Dirty look
Moke: Bad guy
Minors: No big deal
Moemoe: Sleep
Mahu: Gay/homo
Make die dead: Dead as a dodo/real dead
To lompai: To bother
Laydahs: See you later.
Lepo: Dirty
Ala alas: Family jewels (not the shiny ones :-)
Any kine: Anything

Shaka: 

The prevailing local lore is that it originated with Hamana Kalili of Laie who 
lost the middle three fingers on his right hand during an accident at the old 
Kahuku Sugar Mill. 

Kalili's grandnephew Vonn Logan, who works for 
Brigham Young University, explained that Kalili's job was 
to feed sugar cane into the rollers which would squeeze out the juice. 
He lost his fingers when his hand got caught in the rollers, Logan said. 
Because he could no longer work in the mill he became a security guard 
on the sugar train that used to travel between Sunset  Beach and Kaaawa.

"One  of his jobs was to keep all the kids off the train", Logan said. 
"All  the kids would try to jump the train to ride from town to town. 
So they started  signaling each other. Since Kalili lost his fingers, 
the perfect signal was what we have now as the "shaka sign". 
That's how you signaled the way was clear."

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