whakaweti
1. (verb) (-a) to threaten, bully, intimidate.
Nō te tau 1881, i whakapae a Tāwhai nō te mea i kaikaiwaiūtia e te kāwanatanga tāna mahi tiaki i te iwi Māori, ārai atu hoki i ngā momo kino e whakaweti ana i a rātou; engari koa e whakawhere kē ana te Karauna i te iwi Māori (TTR 1994:130). / In 1881 Tāwhai accused the government of betraying its duty to look after the Māori people and protect them from the evils as might threaten them; but instead, the Crown was oppressing them.
2. (modifier) bullying, threatening, intimidating.
Kei te whakahē tō mātou kaiako i te whakapae, he tangata whakaweti a ia. / Our teacher denies the accusation that he is a bully.
3. (noun) bullying.
Ko te whakarekereke, te whakaweti me te whakahāweatanga he takahitanga ēnei i ngā tika taketake tūturu – te haumaru o te tangata (Ngā Tika Tangata o Aotearoa 2010:4). / Violence, bullying and harassment are violations of the most fundamental of human rights – security of the person (Human Rights in New Zealand 2010:14).
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
3. (verb) to be infertile.
Mā taua pī nui e kawe te puehu o tētahi o ngā pua ki tētahi, kātahi ka tika ōna pua, arā ngā purapura, ka tupu. Ā ka kore e pērātia ka pakoko ngā pua (KO 8/8/1890:4). / That large bee will take the pollen of one of the flowers to another one, then its flower will be fertilized, that is the seed, and it will grow. If this doesn't happen the seeds will be infertile.
4. (verb) to be sunken, gaunt.
He hanga aroha tō rātou āhua: tawhito ana ngā kākahu, piko ana ngā tuarā, pakoko ana ngā kanohi (TP 1/6/1900:7). / Their appearance was pitiful: the clothes were old, their backs were bent and their faces were gaunt.
5. (noun) dryness.
6. (noun) image, statue, effigy.
Ka tāraia e Tōpia te pakoko o Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua ki te poutokomanawa o tana whare hou, o Te Ao Mārama; i Ōhinemutu tēnei whare (TTR 1994:195). / Tōpia fashioned an effigy of Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua on the centre pole of his new house, Te Ao Mārama, at Ōhinemutu.
7. (noun) an armless figurehead of a canoe.
E whā ngā waka nei, he waka toiera, he waka pītau, he waka pakoko, he waka tētē (TP 4/1911:10). / These four canoes were: a war canoe with a carved stern and stem, a canoe with a figurehead, a canoe with an armless figurehead, and a canoe with a figurehead without arms and legs.
8. (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.
See also kōkopu
9. (noun) Crans' bully, Gobiomorphus basalis - an endemic fish restricted to stoney riverbeds and streams of the North Island. Body moderately stout and stocky.
See also kōkopu
tīpokopoko
1. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides and other species of bully - stocky fish with large head, 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.
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.
whakawetiweti
1. (verb) (-tia) to threaten, make threats, bully.
Nō te tau 1951 i whakarauika haeretia e ia te tangata, whakawetiwetitia hoki e ia te Poari Whenua Māori o te Rohe o Aotea ki te whakatū whare ki Rātana Pā kē, tē whakatū whare noa ai ki Whanganui (TTR 2000:177). / In 1951 she brought people together and bullied the Aotea District Māori Land Board into erecting houses at Rātana Pā rather than in the town of Whanganui.
See also whakaweti
Synonyms: kapatau
2. (modifier) bullying, threatening, intimidating.
Ka haongia a Kaiapoi me Ōnawe pā i Akaroa, ka kōrero whakawetiweti a Te Rauparaha ki te raupatu i te katoa o Te Waipounamu (TTR 1990:135). / After the capture of Kaiapoi and of Ōnawe pā at Akaroa, Te Rauparaha threatened to conquer the entire South Island.
3. (noun) threat, intimidation.
Ko te whai o tēnei nēhi kia ora mai tēnei wahine i runga i tōna mate kino, mā te whakarite hoki i ngā tohutohu mai a te tākuta, ahakoa noho tēnei nēhi i roto i te kino, kāore ana whakawetiweti. Ko te mea nui kai a ia ko te aroha ki tēnei wahine (TPH 5/1/1903:4). / This nurse did her best to save this woman, who was seriously ill. She followed the instructions of the doctor and despite the danger to this nurse she was not intimidated. The main thing to her was the concern for this woman.
whakawhiu
1. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to oppress, afflict, punish.
2. (modifier) threatening, intimidating, bullying.
Ka mate ngā wāhine te huri tuarā ki ērā tūmomo kupu whakawhiu, te whārere ō rātou tūranga mahi rānei, te kōrero rānei ki ngā pirihimana (Te Ara 2014). / The women ignored those threats, or abandoned their work, or spoke to the police.
3. (noun) punishment, sentence, penalty, chastisement.
I ohorere a Te Pahi ki ngā tikanga me ngā ture a te Pākehā, he whakahouhou; i ongaonga rawa atu ia i te taumaha o ngā whakawhiu a te Pākehā mō ngā hara whēnako, ehara noa iho nei (TTR 1990:240). / Te Pahi was shocked and disgusted by the customs and laws of the Pākehā; he was horrified by the severity of Pākehā sentences for minor theft.
Synonyms: rerenga kōrero, rerenga, whiu, whiu tārewa, ngawhi, whiu, whiunga, whepu, hāmene
whakahakahaka
1. (verb) (-tia) to threaten, menace, intimidate, bully.
I te tekau tau atu i 1880, ka whakahakahakatia tēnei motu e Rūhia (i te wā e whakahakahaka ana a Rūhia i ngā pānga o Piripitānia ki te taha raki o Īnia) (Te Ara 2015). / In the 1880s this country was threatened by Russia (at the time when Russia was threatening British interests in North India).
2. (verb) to cower, cringe, creep.
Ka pōwhiriwhiri te waero o te kurī rā, ka whakahakahaka haere atu, ka tae ki a Kuharoa (JPS 1906:132). / The dog wagged its tail and crept up to Kuharoa.
3. (verb) to descend upon.
Ka eke ki runga, ka whakahakahaka iho ngā manu rā, ka piki anō whakarunga ngā manu rā, aua tonu ake, ka tiu anō ki runga ki te pā (JPS 1905:76). / Those kites ascended to a height, and then descended, then climbed upwards again until they were a long way up, and swooped again over the pā.
4. (modifier) threatening, bullying, intimidatory, menacing.
Nō taua wiki tonu i tae atu ai tētahi reta whakahakahaka e whakahau ana kia mātua hoko raihana ngā tāngata whai pouaka whakaata, ki te kore, ka mau i roto i te wā, ā, ka whiua (HM 4/1993:5). / On that very same week a threatening letter arrived ordering that people owning televisions must buy a licence, and if they don't they will eventually be caught and punished.
Synonyms: kaioraora, pōrukuruku
kōkopu
1. (noun) banded kōkopu, cockabully, Galaxias fasciatus, whitebait - small, blunt-nosed, endemic freshwater fish that is slender, lacks scales and carries a dorsal fin set far to the rear. Head and body dark brown to olive-green with narrow polar bars crossing flanks and continuous across back. Widespread in forested areas. Capable of climbing moist vertical faces. The juvenile form is called whitebait.
E kīia ana, kua tae mai ngā ika o Karapōnia, e kīa nei, he tarauta (e pēnei ana me te kōkopu wai māori a te Māori) ā kua tukua atu aua ika ki tētahi o ngā roto i Waikato (TW 2/11/1878:546). / It is reported that fish from California have arrived, which are called trout (and are like the Maori’s fresh water kōkopu) and those fish have been released in one of the lakes in Waikato.
Synonyms: kōriwhariwha, kōawheawhe, kōkopuruao, kōkopu taiwhara, kōpakopako, para, parakeke, ruao, ruwao, moruru
2. (noun) large species of eel.
Nō te tau 1965 ka kōrero te kaumātua rā a Tame Saunders mō ngā momo tuna heke, rere kotahi katoa ai tēnā momo tuna, tēnā momo tuna, tēnā momo tuna: tuatahi ko ngā hao (30 henemita te roa), whai muri ko ngā riko (he kākāriki te tuarā, kotahi mita te roa), ngā paranui (he pango te tae, he kiri mātotoru), kātahi ngā tuna kōkopu (tae ki te 1.8 mita te roa, hāwhe koma-mano te taumaha) (Te Ara 2013). / Tame Saunders, an elder, described in 1965 how the different types of eels came down in the same order: first the hao (king eels, about 30 centimetres long), then the riko (greenish-backed eels, about a metre long), then the paranui (dark, with thick skins), and finally the kōkopu tuna (up to 1.8 metres long and weighing just under 30 kilograms).
Synonyms: riko
3. (noun) variety of greenstone like tōtōweka but with smaller regular dots like the freshwater fish called kōkopu.
4. (noun) bullhead, bullies, Gobiomorphus spp. - a small, blunt-headed, sluggish, endemic freshwater fish.
5. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides - stocky fish with large head, two separate dorsal fins, strong body scales, and pelvic fins located forwards beneath the gill openings. 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.
2. (noun) bully-off (hockey).
māruru
1. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides - stocky fish with large head, two separate dorsal fins, strong body scales, and pelvic fins located forwards beneath the gill openings. 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.
See also kōkopu
2. (noun) Crans' bully, Gobiomorphus basalis - an endemic fish restricted to stoney riverbeds and streams of the North Island. Body moderately stout and stocky.
See also kōkopu
titikura
1. (noun) Crans' bully, Gobiomorphus basalis - an endemic fish restricted to stoney riverbeds and streams of the North Island. Body moderately stout and stocky.
See also kōkopu
tītarakura
1. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides - stocky fish with large head, two separate dorsal fins, strong body scales, and pelvic fins located forwards beneath the gill openings. 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.
See also kōkopu
2. (noun) Crans' bully, Gobiomorphus basalis - an endemic fish restricted to stoney riverbeds and streams of the North Island. Body moderately stout and stocky.
See also kōkopu
kōpūtea
1. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides - stocky fish with large head, two separate dorsal fins, strong body scales, and pelvic fins located forwards beneath the gill openings. 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.
See also kōkopu
2. (noun) Crans' bully, Gobiomorphus basalis - an endemic fish restricted to stoney riverbeds and streams of the North Island. Body moderately stout and stocky.
See also kōkopu
kōpū
1. (noun) Crans' bully, Gobiomorphus basalis - an endemic fish restricted to stoney riverbeds and streams of the North Island. Body moderately stout and stocky.
See also kōkopu
hawai
1. (noun) watercourse, rivulet, channel, waterway, canal, streamlet.
Ko Lily Copplestone o Aotearoa tonu tētahi o ngā kaikauhoe matatū, rāua ko te kaikauhoe rongonui, ko Mercedes Gleitze, nāna nei i kau te hawai o Ingarangi (TTR 1998:117). / Lily Copplestone of Aotearoa/New Zealand was one of the endurance swimmers, and the famous swimmer, Mercedes Gleitze, who swam the English channel.
2. (noun) bullhead, bullies, Gobiomorphus spp. - a small, blunt-headed, sluggish, endemic freshwater fish.
