mānukanuka
1. (verb) to be apprehensive, puzzled, anxious.
E mānukanuka ana ngā Pākehā o Ingarani ki taua kaipuke; e whakaaro ana kua wera atu i te moana me ōna tāngata e whā tekau i eke atu i konei - hui ki ngā hēramana ka nui atu i te rima tekau (TWM 30/12/1869:2). / The English are anxious about that ship and are thinking that it has been burnt at sea together with its forty passengers who boarded from here - altogether with the crew there were more than fifty.
2. (verb) to have misgivings.
3. (noun) anxiety, misgiving, apprehension.
Kāti, i te tau 1863, i te noho anipā a ngā Pākehā i roto i tērā takiwā o Te Matau-a-Māui ki ngā kōhimuhimu kei te tino pakari haere te Kīngitanga; nā Whaanga i whakamahea tō rātau mānukanuka (TTR 1990:392). / Well, in 1863 when the Pākehā in the Hawke's Bay district were alarmed at the rumours that the King Movement was strengthening, Whaanga allayed their fears.
