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kaipaoe

1. (verb) to wander aimlessly, drift, ramble, roam.

Kua kore e tau a Te Make, kua kaipaoe haere (EM 2002:5). / Te Make could no longer settle and drifted aimlessly.

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Synonyms: kōpiko, murakehu, kōpikopiko, ātiutiu, ngau, whakatīhohe, kaipāwe, hāereere, amio, kaewa, hākoke, kāewaewa, atiti, whēkoi, tahawhenua, maewa, kaea, kōkewa, āmio


2. (modifier) wandering, nomadic, migratory, itinerant.

Ka tae ki te wā mahana o te rā ia Oketopa, ka hoki mai te iwi kaipaoe nei (TJ 21/12/1899:16). / When the season of warm days arrives each October, this migratory species returns.

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Synonyms: konene, koroirangi, kōkewa


3. (noun) wandering, drifting, roaming.

Ko te kōrero a Eruera mō Te Make, ahakoa āna kaipaoe, i te wā ka tau mai ki te wā kāinga, koirā tētahi o ngā kaumātua noho i te pae i Kōkōhīnau (EM 2002:162). / What Eruera said about Te Make was that despite his drifting about, in the times that he settled at home he was one of the elders who sat on the orator's bench at Kōkōhīnau marae.

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Synonyms: kūrapa, tīweka, karore, kōkewa, kaipāwe


4. (noun) vagrant, tramp, wanderer, loafer, drifter, itinerant, nomad, swagman.

I taua wā kei te kaha te ngau o te korekore, ā, ko tā rāua mahi nei ko tana wahine he whāngai i ngā tāngata paoe mau tueke. Ko te utu a ngā kaipaoe he mahi i roto i te māra whakatipu kai rahi (TTR 2000:35). / At that time the depression was biting and he and his wife fed the ‘swaggies’. In return the swagmen did work in a large garden.

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Synonyms: tangata takapau pōkai, tipiwhenua, karioi, kaihau, kaiparo, pirorehe, kaipāwe, parakūkā, inukorokoro

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