korekore
1. (verb) to be nil, nothing, not a thing.
Ka kārangaranga haere tonu tō mātau māmā, korekore ana (HP 1991:19). / Our mother continued calling, but there was nothing.
Synonyms: korekore ana (nei), pākorehā, aha, kore noa iho, kore, karekau, kāore kau
2. (noun) sterile, depression, time of scarcity, vacuum.
I taua wā kei te kaha te ngau o te korekore, ā, ko tā rāua mahi nei ko tana wahine he whāngai i ngā tāngata paoe mau tueke (TTR 2000:35). / At that time the depression was at its worst and he and his wife fed many ‘swaggies’.
Korekore
1. (noun) moon on the fifth to seventh nights after the full moon - unproductive days of the lunar month.
Ko te tuatoru o ngā Korekore e kīia ana e Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, ko te Korekore Whakapiri. Kua whakapiri ki ngā Tangaroa (WT 2013:27). / Te Whānau-ā-Apanui refers to the third Korekore as Korekore Whakapiri; it is closing in on the Tangaroa nights.
Korekore, Te
1. (noun) realm of potential being, The Void.
Synonyms: Kore, Te
2. (personal noun) moon on the sixth night of the lunar month (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui).
Korekore Whakapiri
1. (personal noun) moon on the seventh night of the lunar month (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui).
Ko te tuatoru o ngā Korekore e kīia ana e Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, ko te Korekore Whakapiri. Kua whakapiri ki ngā Tangaroa (WT 2013:27). / Te Whānau-ā-Apanui refers to the third Korekore as Korekore Whakapiri; it is closing in on the Tangaroa nights.
korekore ana (nei)
1. absolutely nothing, not a thing, not any, absolutely not, (they) are incapable - an idiom to suggest the complete absence of something.
Korekore ana nei he whakamārama e hāngai pū ana ki te tikanga o tēnei kīwaha (HM 3/1994:3). / There is absolutely no explanation relevant to the meaning of this idiom.
Kia riwha i a rātou tētāhi mahi i tua atu i te whakatuanui, korekore ana nei. / For them to achieve something other than being overbearing, they were completely incapable of doing.
Ahakoa kīia atu au kei mahi pērā kia whakaoko mai nei, korekore ana. / No matter how much you told them not to do that, it made absolutely no difference.
Synonyms: kore noa iho, korekore, he paku aha nei, kāore he aha, pākorehā
wā o te korekore
1. (noun) depression, slump - a long period of financial and industrial decline.
Auau tonu tā rātou whakatū i ō rātou pō whakangahau i Hakaroa (arā, ko Horomaka he ingoa anō mō te kūiti rā), hei mahi moni hei tuku mā te hunga kāinga i te wā o te korekore (TTR 2000:63). / They performed concerts regularly around Banks Peninsula, to raise money for the community during the depression.
