Sukabak

December namba wan

I learned another new bislama word today - 'sukabak', it translates literally to 'sugar bug', think about it for a while...do you know what it is?

When our friend was describing the sukabak to us he said (a literal translation from bislama, of course) that it's this bug that people look out for and that you can eat their eggs and their eggs are sweet, very sweet.

There are no bug's eggs that humans eat, not that I could think of anyways. But that is me thinking in english. Thinking in bislama that sentence translates more accurately to" 'there is a bug or something like a bug because there are not very many words in our language and you can eat it's eggs or something like eggs or something that can best be described as eggs with our available word options'.

A sugar bug is a honey bee.