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Kuki

1. (loan) (personal name) Cook.

I whainatia te rangatira o te Kāpene Kuki Hōtēra i Tanītini e toru pāuna £3 me ngā utu mō te kōti, mō tāna hokonga waipiro i te Rātapu (TJ 1/3/1898:2). / The manager of the Captain Cook Hotel in Dunedin was fined three pounds plus court costs for selling liquor on a Sunday.

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kōhua

1. (verb) (-tia) to cook by boiling, boil, poach (cooking).

Ā ka kōhua ai taua hiako ki te wai wera, ā ka inu ai i te wai o taua kōhuatanga, kia kotahi tīpune e inu i te inumanga kotahi, ā kia ono inumanga i te rā kotahi (TW 28/9/1878:480). / And then boil the bark in hot water, then drink the liquid of that infusion, one teaspoon at a time, six times a day.

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2. (noun) pot for boiling food, boiler - traditionally a vessel for boiling food in which heated stones were placed.

Ka tomokia te whare o te kaumātua rā, rokohanga atu e noho ana i te taha o te ahi, e tū ana hoki te kōhua kai (KO 15/9/1883:7). / When they entered that elder's house, they came upon him sitting beside the fire and a pot of food.

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See also kōhue

Synonyms: kōhue

hapī

1. (noun) cooking pit, earth oven (in which food is cooked by steam and heat from heated stones), hāngī.

Te reka kē o ngā kai i puta mai i te hapī (PK 2008:78). / How tasty the food is that comes from an earth oven.

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whakatāmahana

1. (verb) (-tia) to cook a second time, warm up (cooked food), reheat, recook.

Ka reka kē noa ake te poaka me te pūhā ina whakatāmahanatia (PK 2008:1133). / Pork and pūhā tastes better when it is reheated.

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kākara

1. (noun) rattle - made of several pieces of bone or wood and hung around a dog's neck when hunting kiore, kiwi and kākāpō.


2. (noun) conch shell trumpet - with an attached short, wooden mouthpiece.


3. (noun) Cook's turban shell, Cookia sulcata - a large, round, heavy univalve that lives under rocks just below low tide.

See also kāeo


4. (noun) knobble whelk, Austrofusus glans - a species of medium-sized sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc.


5. (noun) dark rock shell, snail whelk, Haustrum haustorium - a large species of predatory sea snail. The shell has a low point, weak spiral groves and large aperature. Dark brown to purple in colour, white inside. Common among rocks between tides.

He tōrino te āhua o te anga o te kākara, he anga manauri, he mā a roto, he awaawa whāiti e kōmiro ana i te anga, he waha nui tonu. / The shell shape of the dark rock shell is spiral, a dark shell that is white inside having narrow grooves spiralling around the shell and it has a quite wide mouth opening.

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karekawa

1. (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, karariwha, kararuri, kawari, koeo, koeti, koio, kōrama, 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, toitoi, 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

kōhurehure

1. (verb) (-a) to remove the bones (of birds for cooking).

Kōhurehurea ā tātou kūkupa (W 1971:127). / Remove the bones of our New Zealand pigeons, please.

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kono

1. (noun) small square basket for cooked food.

Ka mauria ngā kono kai, he tāngata ngā kai o roto o ngā kono katoa (JPS 1922:26). / The food baskets were brought, the food in all the baskets being human flesh.

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2. (noun) loop, noose, knot.

Mahia he kono ka komo atu te moka o te taura (Ng 1993:261). / Make a loop and pass the end of the rope through it.

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Synonyms: ruru, tapona, noti, pona, tīpona, pūtiki, pūtikitiki, māhanga, naha, reti, kaha, tāwhiti, koro, kōpeti, koromāhanga, tari, karu māhanga, koromeke, koropewapewa, koru, tau, koropewa, pōkuru


3. (noun) bend, corner.

Kotahi kono ka tae ki te ngutuawa o Raparapaririki (W 1971:134). / One bend and they had reached the mouth of the Raparapaririki stream.

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tāmaoa

1. (verb) (-tia) to pollute through contact with cooked food.

Kei tāmaoatia te mata o te rākau e te kai maoa (W 1971:376). / Don't contaminate the spell on the weapon with cooked food.

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2. (verb) (-tia) to cook.

Nā Te Rupe anō, i tāmaoa atu ki te waka hākari (M 2007:90). / It was Te Rupe again, who cooked them for the feasting canoe (M 2007:91).

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tāmaoka

1. (verb) (-tia) to be cooked.

Kia korohuhutia, kia tāmaoka iho, ka kai (W 1971:376). / It should be boiled, cooked and then eat it.

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nau

1. (noun) Cook's scurvy grass, Lepidium oleraceum - a strong-smelling herb up to 50 cm tall. The stem is woody below. The four-petalled flowers are small and white and are followed by flat, slightly notched seed capsules. A plant found throughout coastal Aotearoa/New Zealand and on nearby islands.

kōrito

1. (modifier) flaxen, blond, fair-haired.

He aha te uru o tō tamaiti? Kāpātaua he uru kōrito, he kōrako, he uru ariki nō Pipi (JPS 1918:18). / What is the hair of your child like? If only it was the blond, fair, aristocratic hair of Pipi.

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2. (noun) young unexpanded leaves (of plants such as the kiekie).

Ko te tāwhara ko te hua tēnei, ko te kōrito o te kiekie e tupu ana i runga i ngā rākau pūwharawhara (TWK 43:17). / The edible flower bracts and the young leaves of the kiekie grow on clumps of trees.

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3. (noun) cooked raupō roots.


4. (noun) soft outer part of the shoulder-blade.


5. (noun) dark-green opaque variety of pounamu.

poti

1. (noun) angle, corner.

Ka uru a Tūpai ki roto o Huri-whenua; haere rawa ia ki te poti o te whare noho mai ai (JPS 1914:133). / Tūpai entered the house, Huri-whenua, and went straight to the corner of the house and sat there.

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2. (noun) basket for cooked food.

Ka pau tana poti, ka neke atu ki tētehi atu poti kai (W 1971:296). / When his food basket was eaten, he moved to another basket of food.

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poti whakatara

1. (noun) food basket, large square-bottomed basket for cooked food for distinguished visitors.

See also poti tara

Synonyms: poti whakauru

poti whakauru

1. (noun) food basket, large square-bottomed basket for cooked food for distinguished visitors.

See also poti tara

Synonyms: poti whakatara

mairehu

1. (noun) small basket for cooked food.

tāngōngō

1. (stative) thoroughly ripe or cooked, soft.

Kua tāngōngō te piki, kua tino waiwai, kua tino reka (PK 2008:849). / The figs are very ripe, juicy and sweet.

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maonga

1. (stative) be cooked.

Ka kī ngā ipu i ngā kōkō, ka mauria ki te ahi, ka kōhuatia; ka maonga, ka mauria mai ki te aroaro o Rupe (NM 1928:25). / When the containers were filled with tūī they were taken to the fire, boiled, and when cooked they were presented to Rupe.

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2. (stative) be ripe, mature (of fruit).

Synonyms: maoa, maoka, pakari

tao

1. (verb) (-na,-ngia) to cook.

Ka ngarongaro atu te taua, ka heke ngā tāngata o Rākaipākā, ka whakaemitia ngā tinana o ngā tāngata mate, ka taongia (HP 1991:28). / When the war party disappeared, the people of Rākaipākā descended and gathered the bodies of the people killed and cooked them.

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2. (noun) cooking.

Nō waenganui o ngā te tekau tau mai i 1830, ka taetae mai ngā kaiwhakaako Karaitiana ki Te Māhia. E taki kauwhau ana i te rangimārie; kia whakamutua te tao tangata; kia whakakorehia ngā mahi whawhai (TTR 1990:245). / By the mid 1830s, Christian teachers had arrived at Māhia and were preaching peace, an end to cooking people and an end to fighting.

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Kāpene Kuki

1. (loan) (personal name) Captain James Cook (1728-1779) English explorer who explored the Pacific and made three visits to Aotearoa/New Zealand.

(Te Kōhure Textbook (Ed. 2): 134-139;)

E tamariki ana anō a Patuone, ka tae mai a Kāpene Kuki i te takiwā ki Rākaumangamanga (TTR 1990:107). / Patuone was a child when Captain Cook arrived in the Cape Brett area.

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2. (loan) (noun) Captain Cooker, razor-backed pig - a wild pig descended from domestic pigs released by James Cook.

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