puehu

1. (verb) (-tia) to get dusty, turbid, hazy.

Tutū ana te moana, ā puehu ana te rangi i te heihei o te moana (W 1971:44). / The sea is churned up and the sky is hazy from the spray of the sea.

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2. (noun) dust.

Tau rawa ake te puehu, e tīraha ana te ika huirua o Maungapōhatu. Ko Te Māipi Te Whiu tētahi, ko Toko tētahi (TTR 1996:133). / When the dust settled (i.e. when the fighting was over), two people of Maungapōhatu lay dead. Te Māipi Te Whiu was one and the other was Toko.

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3. (noun) silt.

Ahakoa he puehu, he nui te tuna (HP 1991:27). / Although there was silt, there were lots of eels.

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Synonyms: parahuhu, kenepuru, parahua, parakiwai

4. (noun) pollen.

Ka unuhia te waihonga harakeke, ka whakaemia te puehu o te raupō hei poke parāoa (Te Ara 2012). / Nectar was taken from flax and cakes were made from raupō (bullrush) pollen.

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Synonyms: renga, nehu, hae

ngote puehu

1. (noun) vacuum cleaner.

puehu huka

1. (loan) (noun) icing sugar.

puehu parāoa

1. (loan) (noun) flour.

I te wā i whānau ai a Maata, he kawe puehu parāoa, hua atu hoki te mahi a tana pāpā, atu i Whakatāne ki Ākarana, mā runga i te kaipuke o tōna iwi, ko te 'Ira' te ingoa (TTR 1996:230). / At the time Maata was born her father was engaged in transporting flour and produce from Whakatāne to Auckland on his people's ship, the 'Ira'.

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puehu tuarangi

1. (noun) nebulae.

tutū te puehu

1. a great disturbance, all hell broke loose, there was pandemonium, chaos reigned, there was a great commotion, there was an uproar, things got quite heated - a phrase used to indicate that a great conflict has broken out or will erupt.

Ka haere tonu te kēmu, engari ia kei ngā taha o te papa whutupōro kua tutū te puehu. / The game continued but on the sidelines all hell had broken loose.
O ngā mahi katoa i mahia e Eruera mō te marae o Kōkōhīnau, ko tētahi i tutū ai te puehu, ko te tapahanga i te kūaha ki te tūngaroa o te whare tipuna, o Ōruataupare (EM 2002:81). / Of all the things done by Eruera for Kōkōhīnau marae, the most contentious one was the cutting of the door in the back wall of the ancestral house, Ōruataupare.

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mira mahi puehu parāoa

1. (noun) flour mill.

Nō te takiwā ki te tau 1863, ka whakamātau a Tūhoe ki te whakatū mira mahi puehu parāoa ki Oromairoa i Rūātoki (TTR 1994:168). / About 1863 Tūhoe tried to build a flour mill at Oromairoa, in Rūātoki.

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tutūnga o te puehu

1. (noun) conflict, agitation, ruckus, ruction.

Nā te tutūnga o te puehu i te pitihana mō te reo Māori i te tau 1972, ka tāpaea te reo hei akomanga ki ētahi kura tuarua (Te Ara 2017). / Because of the agitation from the petition for the Māori language in 1972, the language was offered as a subject in some secondary schools.

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