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mangungu

1. (verb) to be chipped, brocken, crushed.

Kotahi te wahine kai rama, i mokowhiti ki te huarahi nā te matapihi o te whare, mangungu ana ngā wheua (KO 15/4/1884:4). / One woman drinking rum jumped onto the road from the window of a house and her bones were broken.

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2. (verb) to be uncooked, underdone.

Nāna anō tana hāngī i tahu, i poki, ā, mangungu ana ngā kai o taua hāngī (TW 7/10/1876:367). / He cooked and covered his own hāngī and the food of that hāngī was underdone.

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3. (modifier) uncooked, underdone.

He tahu hē nā taku hoa i ā māua kai, ā, kāhore he hāngī i maoa, he hāngī mangungu anake (W 1971:178). / Because my friend cooked our food incorrectly, none of the hāngī food was cooked, it was only undercooked hāngī food.

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4. (noun) close weaving, close knitting.

Ki te āta titiro koe i te kākahu nei, ka kitea te mangungu o te whatu. / If you look closely at this cloak the close weaving can be seen.

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