taringa
1. (verb) to be deaf, unhearing, indifferent, unresponsive - often in the phrase taringa turi.
I momoho anō hoki te mahi a Ngata ki te whakawhere i te hunga kua roa kē nei e taringa turi ana, nā te mea, i murua ō rātau whenua (TTR 1996:108). / Ngata was also successful in persuading people who had been unresponsive, because of the confiscation of their land.
2. (noun) ear.
Kāore i ārikarika ngā pātaitai a taku māmā ki a au, me te papaki i aku taringa (HP 1991:23). / My mother asked me a lot of questions and slapped my ears.
patu taringa
1. tell a fib, tell a lie, pull someone’s leg.
Pare: I mea mai a Tau i wini koe i te rōtō. Rangi: Kei te patu taringa kē ia. / Pare: Tau said you won the lotto. Rangi: He’s pulling your leg.
Synonyms: kēā, papahu, tahupera, rūkahu, whakateka, teka, tito, tipatipa, tīpapa, kōrero teka, kōrero parau, horihori, hori, pūkei, rūpahu, takoto, hāwatewate, pūkai, paraparau
ngau taringa
1. (noun) ear biting ceremony - a ceremony by which the mana of a dying tohunga or rangatira was transferred to a younger person by biting the ear of the dying person.
Ka whakaheke te tohunga, a Taipāhau, ka tukuna e ia ōna mana katoa ki a Te Heuheu i runga i te kawa o te 'ngau taringa.' Koia tēnei; ko tā te taitama ko ia te whākapi he komikomi i te taringa o te kaumātua (TTR 1990:186). / The tohunga, Taipāhau, transferred all his powers to Te Heuheu by the ceremony known as 'ngau taringa'. This is: the young man, who is to be the successor, bites the ear of the elder.
taringa pākura
1. (modifier) stubborn, obstinate, inflexible, hard-nosed, intractable, obdurate.
He tangata taringa pākura te tangata nei (W 1971:256). / This man is a stubborn person.
Synonyms: kakī mārō, whakaioio, houkeke, upoko mārō, hōkeke, mōtohe, taumārō, whakaturi, tohetohe, turi, ngana, makiki, kōioio, whakatete, whakatohe, whātuturi, hoi, kōroiroi, pukutohe, pūkeke, papamārō, whakatuturi, pake, pukutohetohe
2. (noun) stubborn person.
Mēnā he tangata upoko mārō koe kua kīia koe he taringa pākura (Te Ara 2016). / If you are an obstinate person you are said to be a 'taringa pākura'.
taringa huruhuru
1. (noun) old person.
Synonyms: wheteke, pōua, ahungarua, tūnohunohu
taringa whitirua
1. (noun) inattentive person.
See also whitirua
taringa mutu
1. (noun) stubborn person.
I a au e tamariki ana, ki te kore au e aro ki te kupu a taku whaea, kua perea e ia taku taringa, ā kua mea mai 'taringa mutu!' (HJ 2012:12). / When I was young, if I didn't take notice of what my mother said, she would have flicked my ear and said 'stubborn one' to me.
2. (noun) deaf person, deaf ears, stubborn person.
2. (modifier) deaf, stubborn, inattentive.
Ehara kē hoki i te mea kāore e puta i a rātou ō rātou whakaaro ki te reo Māori, ehara, engari he momo kakī mārō, taringa mārō. E tino pōhēhē ana mā te kōrero Pākehā ka ora ko te reo Māori (HM 3/1998:5). / And it's not as if they can't express their thoughts in Māori, they can, but it's a type of obstinacy, of stubbornness. They really think that the Māori language will survive by speaking English.
3. (noun) deaf person, deaf ears, stubborn person.
E kore ia e neke i ērā whakaaro ōna. He taringa mārō hoki (HJ 2012:12). / She will never change her opinion. She's so stubborn.
2. dandle, nurse an infant.
3. (transitive verb) finger, handle carelessly.
4. remove tapiu from crops, etc.
taringa rahirahi
1. (noun) person quick to take offence, touchy person.
Kīhai i tika ki a ia te whakataukī a ōna tūpuna 'Ko Ngāti Paoa taringa rahirahi', nōtemea ehara ia i te tangata ohotata (TKP 1857:4). / The saying of his ancestors 'Ngāti Pāoa have sensitive ears (quick to take offence at insults)' was not appropriate for him because he was not a person to act impulsively.
