The Nickname
All University of Hawaiʻi teams were traditionally called "Rainbows" until controversies with the name led the university to allow its men's teams to choose their own nicknames; today, the baseball team are "Rainbows," the basketball team are "Rainbow Warriors," and football, volleyball, golf and tennis are all "Warriors." Regardless, all the women's teams still officially retain the traditional "Rainbow" label. Wahine is the Hawaiian word for "woman"; as is frequently the case in Polynesian languages, the word does not change in its plural form. During games, the Rainbow Wahine are often colloquially known as The Rainbows or 'Bows (which may be used to refer to the men's Rainbow Warrior teams as well), and The Wahine. In conversation, the use of the word Wahines, to describe a team or multiple players is sometimes replaced with Nā Wahine ("nā" the plural definite article in Hawaiian).
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Famous quotes containing the word nickname:
“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)