kaihorohoro
1. (verb) (-tia) to eat greedily, scoff.
Synonyms: hāupaupa, whakamanumanu, tāwai
2. (noun) glutton.
I hāupaupatia e te kaihorohoro ngā kai katoa i roto i te pākatio (Ng 1993:181). / The glutton scoffed all the food in the fridge (Ng 1993:181).
2. (noun) glutton.
He kaihoro te pārera. Whai anō whakaritea ai te tangata kaihoro ki tēnei manu, inā ‘He pārera apu kai’ (Te Ara 2015). / The grey duck is a glutton. A greedy person is likened to this bird, in the saying ‘He pārera apu kai’ (the grey duck is a gross feeder).
ō niho, ō niho
1. what a glutton, what a guts - an idiom used for a glutton, who eats rapidly or has flatulence.
Kātahi anō ka mutu te kai a Pare rāua ko Rangi. E pāterotero ana a Pare. Ka mea ake a Rangi, "Ō niho, ō niho!" (HKK 1999:158). / Pare and Rangi have just finished eating. Pare has flatulence and Rangi says, "What a guts!"
2. (modifier) gluttonous, greedy.
Kāore anō ētahi kia kai, kei runga anō te tangata pukukai ki te tiki hāngī māna (PK 2008:706). / Some haven't yet eaten and the greedy man is up again to go and get some more hāngī food for himself.
3. (noun) glutton, gluttony.
Ko te haurangi he ngahau nā te kikokiko, pērā anō me te māngere me te momoe me te pukukai (TTT 1/2/1926:356). / Drunkenness is a pleasure of the flesh, just as is idleness, sleeping too much and gluttony.
homanga
1. (modifier) greedy, gluttonous, rapacious.
Synonyms: tou areare, whakakakao
puku
1. (modifier) very - intensifier when used before or after the word it qualifies, e.g. puku horo kai (ravenous), pukukai (greedy, gluttonous), pukuriri (furious).
Heoi, ka noho nei te taniwha, ko tana mahi, he patu i ngā tira haere; arā, he kai i ngā tāngata, horopuku tonu, ahakoa he kawenga tā te tangata, ka horomia pukutia e taua taniwha (JPS 1905:200). / And so the taniwha remained there. His occupation was killing the travelling parties - that is, he used to swallow them whole, even if they had loads on their backs they were swallowed up by that taniwha.
