popoto
1. (verb) to be short.
I te wā i hopukia ai a Rua i mua ake nei mō te toru marama ki te herehere ka kūtia ōna makawe kia popoto (TKO 15/4/1916:10). / At the time that Rua was previously captured and imprisoned for three months his hair was cut short.
Synonyms: kurutētete, kanepoto, takupū, hangahanga, pore, poto, pōtehe, pōtehetehe
2. (adjective) be short.
He anganga nui tōna, he popoto ngā wae (TKM.MM 16/12/1862:26). / Its has a large head and short legs.
3. (modifier) short.
He iwi tangata popoto tērā, he ngaunga hoki nā te makariri i kore ai e roroa ake (TWMNT 2/7/1873:74). / They are a race of short people and it is because of the biting cold that they are not taller.
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.
