2. (noun) wooden clappers, flax clappers - made from the thick woody end of a flax leaf.
(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 167;)
He ōrite te tōkere ki te pākōkō, ki te pākēkē (Wh3 2003:167). / Castanets are like wooden and flax clappers.
3. (verb) to be infertile.
Mā taua pī nui e kawe te puehu o tētahi o ngā pua ki tētahi, kātahi ka tika ōna pua, arā ngā purapura, ka tupu. Ā ka kore e pērātia ka pakoko ngā pua (KO 8/8/1890:4). / That large bee will take the pollen of one of the flowers to another one, then its flower will be fertilized, that is the seed, and it will grow. If this doesn't happen the seeds will be infertile.
4. (verb) to be sunken, gaunt.
He hanga aroha tō rātou āhua: tawhito ana ngā kākahu, piko ana ngā tuarā, pakoko ana ngā kanohi (TP 1/6/1900:7). / Their appearance was pitiful: the clothes were old, their backs were bent and their faces were gaunt.
5. (noun) dryness.
6. (noun) image, statue, effigy.
Ka tāraia e Tōpia te pakoko o Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua ki te poutokomanawa o tana whare hou, o Te Ao Mārama; i Ōhinemutu tēnei whare (TTR 1994:195). / Tōpia fashioned an effigy of Hōri Kīngi Te Ānaua on the centre pole of his new house, Te Ao Mārama, at Ōhinemutu.
7. (noun) an armless figurehead of a canoe.
E whā ngā waka nei, he waka toiera, he waka pītau, he waka pakoko, he waka tētē (TP 4/1911:10). / These four canoes were: a war canoe with a carved stern and stem, a canoe with a figurehead, a canoe with an armless figurehead, and a canoe with a figurehead without arms and legs.
8. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides and other species of bully - stocky fish with large heads, two separate dorsal fins, strong body scales, and pelvic fins located forwards beneath the gill openings. Giant bully is very dark, often black with irregular, golden olive lines on cheeks and a linear series of small, golden speckles on each flank. An endemic fish widespread in esturine and coastal waters of the North and South Islands. Rarely moves more than 2 km inland. Emerges at night to feed.
See also kōkopu
9. (noun) Crans' bully, Gobiomorphus basalis - an endemic fish restricted to stoney riverbeds and streams of the North Island. Body moderately stout and stocky.
See also kōkopu
pākoko
1. (verb) to be barren, infertile, not producing young.
Nā kāhore ā rāua tamariki, he pākoko hoki a Erihāpeti, ā i taua wā kua maha haere rawa ngā rā o tētahi, o tētahi (PT Ruka 1:7). / And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren; and they both were now well stricken in years.
Synonyms: pūtutu, pākira, matapā, pukupā, tūpā, mūhore, wharepā, kikokore, tītōhea, rake
2. (modifier) barren, infertile.
Nā te mea he rangatira ia, he tohunga hoki ki te whakawhānau tamariki, i tonoa tonutia mai ko ia ki te whakaora i te hunga pākoko (TTR 1998:170). / Because she was of noble birth and an expert midwife, she was continually called on to cure infertile people.
3. (noun) barrenness, infertility.
E ai ki ngā kōrero, ka taea e te wai o taua puna te whakaora te māuiui, te pākoko me ngā ringa whati, waewae whati rānei (TTR 1996:194). / It is said that the waters of that spring could cure illness, infertility, broken arms or broken legs.
