2. (verb) to be confused, nonplussed, bewildered, muddled.
Hūkiki ana te koroua i tana rongonga ake taihoa ka turakina tana punua whare (PK 2008:151). / The elderly man was bewildered when he heard that his modest house would later be demolished.
Synonyms: kōhangaweka, parure, raumahara, matekiri, pōkahu
3. (noun) apprehension, unease, anxiety, disquiet - of an unknown danger.
Ko mea tangata he tangata hūkiki ki ōna iwi, ā, i haramai i runga i te hūkiki (JPS 1902:51). / Such and such a person had a vague fear of his own people, and so he came here with that apprehension.
4. (noun) epilepsy, epileptic.
Kua whakaorangia te kāpō, te turi, te wahangū, te pararūtiki, te kopa, te ngoio, te hūkiki, me ērā atu mate (TTT 1/7/1923:13). / Blindness, deafness, dumbness, paralysis, being crippled, asthma, epilepsy and other illnesses have been healed.
