Big Kahuna

In the Hawaiian language, kahuna means an important person or shaman. In English, the big kahuna is the boss or person in charge.

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WotD: Big Kahuna

English is excellent at acquiring words from other languages. 

Today, we have one from Hawaii.

In Hawaiian, kahuna means an important person or shaman (medicine man).

When we speak English, we are not speaking just one language; we are speaking almost every language in the world, or at least some parts of every language.


In English, the big kahuna is the boss or the person in charge of something.


When you go to work this morning, they are the people, even a little person, who are running your kitchen, office, factory, company, or home.

Your size doesn’t matter.

All you need to make you the big kahuna is power or responsibility.


This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).  

On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 67.  

The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.



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