korokoro
1. (verb) to be loose, slack.
Korokoro noa ngā tau o te kākahu (W 1971:143). / The ties of the garment are quite loose.
Synonyms: ngoru, tangatanga, tatere, tāreparepa, moepuku, mātangatanga, tāngengangenga, tāwēwē, kaewa, hāngengangenga, hūngorungoru, tāngāngā, tangara, tangoro, tītengi
2. (noun) taste palate.
Whakaae katoa ana me haere ki Whakaari ki te hopu tītī hei kai mā rātou. He kai pai hoki tēnei, he mōmona, he hinuhinu, he reka ki te korokoro Māori (TWK 2:14). / They all agreed that they should go to White Island to catch muttonbirds for food for them. This is a favourite food, it's fat and oily and is tasty to the Māori palate.
korokoro
1. (noun) lamprey, Geotria australis - an eel-like fish that has a sucker mouth with horny teeth and a rasping tongue. A highly valued food of Māori that was harvested at the beginning of the Māori new year Found around North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands coasts, penetrating inland to 230 km.
Ka kitea a Matariki, ka rere te korokoro (NP 2001:162). / When Matariki is seen, the lamprey migrate. (A whakataukī referring to the lamprey migrating up rivers and streams at the start of the Māori new year, a time when they were caught.)
See also piharau
Synonyms: kanakana wairaki, kanakana, nganangana, pihapiharau, pipiharau, tuna korokoro, wairaki, waituere, pia, puhikorokoro, piharau
tuna korokoro
1. (noun) lamprey, Geotria australis - an eel-like fish that has a sucker mouth with horny teeth and a rasping tongue. A highly valued food of Māori. Found around North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands coasts, penetrating inland to 230 km.
See also piharau
Synonyms: kanakana wairaki, korokoro, kanakana, nganangana, pihapiharau, pipiharau, wairaki, waituere, pia, puhikorokoro, piharau
korokoro tūī
1. (noun) sweet singer, melodious voice.
Ka waiatatia ā rātou waiata – ngā waiata aroha, ngā hahani, ngā waiata mō te rongo, mō te pakanga, ngā mahi rēhia me ngā waiata kaioraora – hei whakaatu i te āhua o tō rātou ao. Ko Puhiwahine te korokoro tūī o rātou katoa (TTR 1994:93). / The songs that they sang - songs of love and hate, peace and war, jollity and derision - reflected the nature of their world. Puhiwahine was the sweetest singer of them all.
2. (noun) articulate speaker, witty speaker.
Me he korokoro tūī te kaikōrero, ka kī te whare i te hunga kua whakarauika ki te whakarongo ki a ia (HJ 2017:61). / If the speaker is an articulate orator, the house will be full of people who have gathered to listen to him.
korokoro o te parata
1. (noun) brink of disaster, path to destruction – a metaphor referring to the near disaster of the Te Arawa canoe caught in a whirlpool in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Ka nui te kōrero whakahē a ētahi tāngata mō te moumou o ngā moni e whakapaua nei ki tēnei whenua, me te kī a ētahi kua heke anō te waka o Te Arawa ki te korokoro o te parata i tēnei pāmu (TTT 1/6/1927:602). / There is much criticism by some people about the money being wasted on this land, and some are saying that the Te Arawa canoe is again on the brink of disaster with this farm.
Synonyms: waha o te parata
Tūwhare, Hone
1. (personal name) (1922-2008) Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Korokoro, Ngāti Tautahi, Te Popoto, Te Uri-o-Hau - Renowned Poet and socialist who was born at Kokewai, Mangakāhia but spent most of the second part of his life at Kaka Point on the Catlins coast. Poetry collections include No Ordinary Sun and Come Rain Hail. Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago in 1969 and again in 1974. At the end of his two year term he published Piggy Back Moon which was shortlisted in the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Awarded the University of Auckland Literary Fellowship in 1991. Named New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate in 1999. Among ten of Aotearoa/New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists at a ceremony in 2003. In 2003, awarded one of the three inaugural Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement.
