2. (verb) (-a) to cut short.
Kokoti ai ngā wāhine o Te Makororo i ō rātou makawe koromengemenge kia poto rawa, moremore ana tēnā! (TWMNT 10/5/1874:109). / The Makololo women cut their curly hair very short, they looked bald!
3. (noun) ambush, ambuscade, intercepting party.
I whakamaharatia atu e Pōmare te herenga matatika kāore anō kia ea i te whānau o Mahuta, e pā ana ki te whakatūpatotanga a Te Rauparaha i a Pōtatau Te Wherowhero i tētehi wā i mua, arā, e tāria ana tērā e tētehi kokoti, ā, nā taua whakatūpatotanga i ora ai a Pōtatau (TTR 1996:143). / Pōmare reminded Mahuta of a debt of honour that his family owed concerning the warning Te Rauparaha once gave Pōtatau Te Wherowhero of an ambush and that warning saved Pōtatau's life.
whakamoe kokoti
1. (noun) ambush, ambuscade.
I te ata ka haere te ope a Ngāti Kahungunu, ka whakanohoia te whakamoe kokoti; ka haere atu a Ngāti Huri ki roto i ngā whakamoe kokoti, ka patua e Ngāti Kahungunu (W 1971:204). / In the morning Ngāti Kahungunu's party departed and set an ambush; Ngāti Huri went into the ambush and were defeated by Ngāti Kahungunu.
See also kokoti
tamariki kokoti tau
1. premature babies, children born prematurely - only used in the plural.
Tohutohu mō te tiaki i ngā tamariki kokoti tau, me ngā tamariki ngoikore (TP 5/1908:7). / Instructions for the care of premature babies and for weakly infants.
See also tamaiti kokoti tau
kokoti i te kiri matamata
1. (noun) circumcision.
He iwi kokoti katoa rātou i te kiri matamata o ngā tamariki tāne (TWMNT 21/4/1874:97). / They are all tribes that practise circumcision of the boys.
Ā i te waru o ngā rā ka kotia te kiri matamata o te tamaiti (PT Rewitikuha 12:3). / And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
See also poka kirimata
