whiuwhiu kupu
1. (noun) controversy, argument, disagreement.
I Ōtaki, ka puta ngā whiuwhiu kupu ki te kōrero i te tika, i te hē rānei, o te tuku i te Kīngi kia hīkoi i raro i te pare o te kūaha i whakairotia ai he wahine, e kūwhera ana ōna kūhā me te kitea atu o te puapua (TTR 1998:89). / In Ōtaki, words were bandied about as to whether it was acceptable or not for the King to walk under a door lintel carved in the likeness of a woman with her thighs open and the vulva exposed.
