kōmiromiro
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
2. (noun) South Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and a short tail living in forest and scrub. The South Island tomtit has a yellowish breast.
See also ngirungiru
Synonyms: piropiro
kikitori
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
kutētē
1. (verb) (-tia) to squeeze out (fluid), milk, express.
E waru tekau ā rātau kau e kutētē ana rātau (HP 1991:17). / They had eighty cows they were milking.
See also kōtētē
2. (noun) breast pump.
3. (modifier) squeezing out (fluid), milking.
Hoki rawa mai a Eruera ki Te Teko i tana mahi kutētē kau i Kamo (EM 2002:43). / When Eruera finally returned to Te Teko his job was milking cows at Kamo.
4. (noun) squeezing out (fluid), milking.
Synonyms: kutētētanga, miraka, whakatētē, whakatētētanga, mirakatanga, kurutētē
2. (noun) sucking.
Taihoa ake nei ka whakamāramatia ngā tikanga mō te whāngai i ngā tamariki i te wā e mutu ai te ngote i te ū o te whaea (TWMNT 23/4/1873:44). / Later the methods of feeding children when they stop sucking the mother's breast will be explained.
3. (noun) teat.
Ko te ngote o te pātara me kōwhiti, ka horoi ki te wai tote: hei muri iho ka pāera mō te rima meneti. Ka mutu tēnā ka waiho i rō wai tote (TTT 1/10/1927:699). / The teat of the bottle should be pulled off, washed in salty water, and after that boil it for five minutes. When that's done leave it in salty water.
toitoi
1. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides and other species of bully - stocky fish with large heads, two separate dorsal fins, strong body scales, and pelvic fins located forwards beneath the gill openings. Giant bully is very dark, often black with irregular, golden olive lines on cheeks and a linear series of small, golden speckles on each flank. An endemic fish widespread in esturine and coastal waters of the North and South Islands. Rarely moves more than 2 km inland. Emerges at night to feed.
Ka nui te whaikōrero, ka tukua te kai, arā, te tuna, te inanga, te kōura, te toitoi (JPS 1901:74). / After a lot of speech-making, food was presented, that is eels, whitebait, crayfish and giant bully.
See also kōkopu
2. (noun) common bully, Gobiomorphus cotidianus - an endemic fish found throughout streams and waterways of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Body moderately stout and head bluntly pointed.
See also tīpokopoko
3. (noun) Cook's turban shell, Cookia sulcata - a large, round, heavy univalve that lives under rocks just below low tide.
See also kāeo
Synonyms: karahiwa, kararuri, karekawa, kawari, koeo, koeti, koriakai, korohiwa, korona, kororiwha, kūpā, marapeka, matamatangongo, mātangata, matatangata, kōramu, matapura, tōrire, hānea, kurewha, tākupu, pipi taiari, rehoreho, rereho, taiwhatiwhati, takarape, tanetane, tāwiri, torewai, tungangi, uere, wahawaha, wētiwha, whētikotiko, karahū, tohemanga, pure, tairaki, ngūpara, pipi tairaki, kuharu, kūkuku, kūkukuroa, kukupati, pūkanikani, papahurihuri, hākari, poua, rerekākara, tio, tikoaka, toheroa, tuangi, tuangi haruru, kaitua, kākara, miware, mitimiti, pūpū, ngārahu tatawa, ngārahu taua, peke, ataata, kaitangata, pūpū kōrama, pūpū atamarama, tihipu, tihi, tio para, tio repe, tipa, totoro, totorere, tuatua, tupa, toretore, ngākihi, ngaingai, kākahi, taiawa, rūharu, tūpere, kuhakuha, ngaere, ngākihi hahae, kukupara, ngākihi awaawa, kuku-mau-toka, ngākihi tea, niania, matangongore, matangārahu, maurea, mimiti, karehu, tītiko, ngāruru, ngaeti, papatua, karoro, waharoa, ururoa, wahanui, ngāeo, pipi, tūteure, ngākihi hiwihiwi, ngākihi kopia, papatai, hahari, hohehohe, hūai, kōmore, pātitotito, pātiotio, peraro, pūkauri, pūpū karikawa, pūpū harakeke, pūpū māeneene, pūpū tuatea, pūpū waharoa, pūpū waitai, pūtātara, purewha, pūrimu, ruheruhe, takarepo, takai, tākai, tūroro, piritoka, pōrohe, kahitua, angarite, awatai, hauwai, harihari, hihiwa, hinangi, hoehoe, hopetea, kāeo, whāngai karoro, pīpipi, pūpū rore, pūpū taratara, pāua, poro, tātara, pūpū tarataratea, whētiko, koio, kōrama, karariwha
4. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
5. (noun) brown creeper, Mohoua novaeseelandiae - a small endemic forest bird of the South Island and Stewart Island, reddish-brown crown, rump and tail, ash-grey on face and neck, and light buff underparts. Usually found in small, fast-moving noisy flocks high in the canopy.
See also pīpipi
Synonyms: tītirihika, pipirihika, pīpipi
kōmata
1. (noun) end, extremity, nipple (of the breast).
I mate mai a Īhaka Whaanga ki Te Māhia i te 14 o Tīhema 1875, ā, he mea tāpuke i runga i tētahi maunga tū tahanga noa iho i te kōmata tonga o te pito o Te Māhia (TTR 1990:395). / Īhaka Whaanga died at Māhia on 14 December 1875. He was buried on an isolated hill at the southern tip of the Māhia peninsula (DNZB 1990:585).
2. (noun) young tender shoots of plants such as the cabbage tree.
I reira anō hoki te poaka pūihi, te tia, te pikopiko me te kōmata (TTR 2000:206). / There there were also wild pig, deer, fern fronds and the tender shoots of the cabbage tree.
3. (noun) darling, beloved, dearest, treasure.
Taku kōmata, taku kahurangi pīataata (W 1971:131). / My darling, my shining jewel.
ū
1. (noun) breast (of a female), udder, teat.
Matawaia rawa ōku kanohi i te roimata, e ohooho ana ōku whēkau, kua maringi tōku ate ki runga ki te whenua, he meatanga ki te wāwahanga o te tamāhine a tōku iwi; nō te mea hemo ana ngā kōhungahunga me ngā mea ngote ū i ngā huarahi o te pā (PT Nga Tangi a Heremaia 2:11). / Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
uma
1. (noun) bosom, chest, breast.
I te ata ka kitea kua kōhuru te kōtiro i a ia. E takoto tahanga ana i te hope ki te kakī - he mea pupuhi nāna tōna uma ki te pū (KO 12/5/1918:10). / In the morning is was discovered that the girl had murdered him. He lay naked from the waist to the neck - she had shot him in the chest with the gun.
pīrangirangi
1. (noun) fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa - a small, friendly, insect-eating bird of the bush and domestic gardens which has a distinctive tail resembling a spread fan.
See also tīrairaka
Synonyms: tītakataka, wakawaka, tīrairaka pango, kōtiutiu, pīwaiwaka, tīwakawaka, tīrairaka, hīwaiwaka, hīrairaka, pīwakawaka, pīrairaka, tīwaiwaka, tīrakaraka, tītīrairaka, tīraureka, pīrakaraka, pītakataka
2. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro, kikitori
pipitori
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
pipitore
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
hōmiromiro
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
Tērā kei te aitia mai, ka tae te tohu ki ngā mōkaikai a Timu, ki a Hine-pipi-wai, ki a Hine-papa-wai, he manu hōmiromiro (JPS 1907:222). / They cohabited and an omen reached the Timu's pets, Hine-pipi-wai and Hine-papa-wai, which were tomtits.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro
miromiro
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
Nā, ka tae mai ngā miromiro, ngā pītoitoi, ngā tātāeko, ngā kōriroriro, ia manu, ia manu, me ngā tīrairaka, ka rūpeke mai (NM 1928:22). / So the white breasted tits, the New Zealand robins, the whiteheads, the grey warblers, each bird together with the fantails all assembled.
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, hōmiromiro
pīngirungiru
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
pīmirumiru
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
pīmiromiro
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
māuipōtiki
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
2. (modifier) suckling, breast-feeding.
Ko te tupeka kauaka, he kai kino tēnā mā te whaea, me waiho tēnā mā ngā koroheke, mā ngā rūruhi; tēnā mā te wahine whakangote tamariki e kai tupeka? Kauaka (TH 1859:3). / Tobacco, no, that's a poor food for mothers. Leave that for the elderly men and elderly women; but should women breast feeding children smoke tobacco? No.
See also whāngote
3. (noun) breast-feeding.
Ki te pau ēnei marama, he hē te whakangote tonu i te tamaiti ki te ū (TP 7/1905:2). / If these months are over, relying on only breast-feeding the child is wrong.
tioro
1. (verb) to scream, screech, make a discordant noise.
Ka tangi ana te kārearea i te rangi paki, he ua āpōpō. Ki te tioro te manu rā i te rangi pōuri, he rā paki ka whai āpōpō (Te Ara 2013). / If the kārearea (falcon) screams on a fine day, it will rain the next day. If it screams on a dull day, it will be a fine day tomorrow.
Synonyms: tīwē, tekekō, ngāngā, ngē, kīrea, kā, ngoengoe, ngoe, kē, pioro
2. (verb) to be shrill.
He āhua roroa rawa nei āna kōrero ki te Pāremata, tioro nei hoki tōna reo (TTR 1994:111). / In Parliament he was inclined to speak at some length, with a strident voice.
Synonyms: tīkākā
4. (noun) shriek, squawk.
Mō tō kī mō te pīpīwharauroa e tīmata ana te tioro i te haerenga ake o te raumati (HKW 1/7/1902:7). / It concerns what you stated about the squawking of the shining cuckoo at the onset of summer.
5. (noun) stitchbird, Notiomystis cincta - a rare endemic forest bird, the male has a black head, upper breast and back, bordered by golden yellow across the breast. White tufts behind the eyes and yellow shoulder patch. Female grayish brown with white wingbar.
See also hihi
Synonyms: kōtihetihe, matakiore, mōtihetihe, tiora, tihe, hihi, kōhihi, kōtihe, kōtihe wera
