pūponiki
1. (loan) (noun) bubonic plague - a contagious bacterial disease, spread by rats, characterised by fever, delirium and swollen inflamed lymph nodes in the armpits or groin.
Kei tētahi ake wāhi o tēnei putanga o tā tātau pepa ngā whakamārama mō te mate hou e patu nei i te tangata o tāwāhi, e kīia nei ko te ‘pūponiki’ (TP 4/1900:10). / In another part of this issue of our paper there are the explanations about this new disease killing people overseas, which is called ‘bubonic plague’.
