2. (modifier) idle, tiresome, lazy, purposeless, pointless.
Ka whakaanga atu te Ope Taua Māori rātou ko the Matua o Aotaearoa katoa ki te Afrika Korps o Erwin Rommel, rātou ko ngā taua o Itari, i roto i te koraha whakatikotiko o Awherika ki te Raki - he taiao kakawa tērā, he wera tunutunu i ētahi wā, ā, he hōkiwai i ētahi atu wā, ā, he āwhā onepū me he rango makihoi (OTM 2016). / The Māori Battalion and all the New Zealand Division would confront Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps and Italian forces in the vast North African desert - a harsh environment of sometimes extreme heat and at other times extreme cold, ferocious sandstorms and tiresome flies.
See also ui makihoi
Synonyms: karore, huakore, kūrapa, kikokore, koretake, huhuakore, papa kore, hakihakiā, māikoiko, hakirara, pirorehe, makuku, pakihore, tō kumu, hākiki, tūkeke, waimori, toupiore, mākoko, hakurara, māngere, ngehe
3. (personal noun) large indefinite number.
Kia nui te Whare me te Tarahau, kia maru ai, ko te tini tēnā o Makihoi (JPS 1911:22). / Let the Whare and Tarahau divisions be great as protection; they are the multitudes of Makihoi.
