kiriweti
1. (stative) be impatient of, hot-tempered, revolutionary, grumpy, abrupt, irritable, irritated with, bad-tempered, annoyed.
I whakaio tahi a ia ki ngā tāne kīhai i pīrangi ki te mau rākau mō tētehi pakanga ehara nā rātou, whawhai kē rānei mō tētehi kāwanatanga nāna tō rātou iwi i muru, i whakakorara. Heoi anō, ka noho kiriweti te kāwanatanga (TTR 1996:44). / She stood firm with the men who did not wish to carry arms for a war that was not theirs, or fight for a government that had dispossessed and scattered their people. But the government was annoyed by this.
Synonyms: kiripiro, pukukino, kaiwhakatuma, hauhau, whakawhana
2. (noun) irritation, annoyance, anger, ill-temper, bad-temper.
Āpiti atu hoki, ko tō rātou kiriweti ki a Te Kēnara mō tana whai i te wahine Māori (TTR 1990:19). / And added to that, they were irritated with Thomas Kendall for his affair with a Māori woman.
