kōtingotingo

1. (verb) to be speckled, dotted, flecked, spotted, stippled.

He mate kakā te kiri, he mea kōtingotingo whero katoa te kiri (TWMNT 26/1/1875:24). / It's an illness where the skin becomes hot and is all spotted red.

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2. (noun) spot.

I te whā o ngā rā ka puta mai ngā kōtingotingo whero i te kanohi, muri iho ki ngā wāhi o te tinana ki raro iho (TWMNT 9/2/1875:35). / On the fourth day the red spots appear on the face, and afterwards on the parts of the body below that.

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3. (noun) spots on kōwhaiwhai patterns - used to represent ancestors and as reminders to the whānau of those particular ancestors.

Mēnā koe e titiro ana ki ngā heke me ngā kōwhaiwhai, he kōtingotingo kei konā, he mea tohu e ōna whānau (Milroy 2015). / If you are looking at the rafters with the kōwhaiwhai patterns, and there are spots there, they are symbols put there by its families.

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4. (noun) young southern black-backed gull, Larus dominicanus - young bird in its first winter has a black bill, dark brown feet and is mottled below and barred above grey and brown.

Synonyms: toie, kaiē, rāpunga, pohio, karoro

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