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<div>Sounds rather vulgar, "as i dua", one whose arse is a
door!</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">A recent
post to the ASAO list mentions the Tok Pisin word:</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial"
size="-1">"asidua" ("sex workers," in public
health parlance, but "street friends" and "sisters"
in local parlance, from the Portuguese for "plenty,"
originally)</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">The last
part does not sound right. For a start my Portuguese dictionary
gives assidua (feminine) as "assiduous, unremitting, sedulous"
rather than "plenty". Also it seems rather a bookish word to
have found its way into pidgin, and I have not heard of it turning up
in pidgins elsewhere. As for an alternative etymology, one would
immediately think that "as" might play a role here. But I'm
sure others on this list will know more about this word's meaning,
currency, variant forms and possible etymology.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Ross
Clark</font></blockquote>
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