mōnehunehu
1. (verb) to be furry, have fine pubescence, have soft down, have a thick short pile.
Te papamōnehu: Whatua ai tēnei papanga ki te kātene, ki te papamāene, ki te ngaiaku rānei. Ka whatua kia tino pipiri ngā kaka, ā, he mōnehunehu tētahi taha (RTA 2014:128). / Velvet: This material is woven with cotton, silk or nylon. It is woven so that the fibres are very close together and one side has a thick short pile.
2. (modifier) indistinct, fuzzy, hazy, ill-defined, misty, out of focus.
Synonyms: porehu, mōnenehu, matarehu, kōehuehu, pūkohukohu, pūrerehu, pōrehurehu, pūnenehu, pūrehurehu, ānehu, pūnehunehu, kōnehunehu, pūnehu
3. (noun) indistinctness, fuzziness, haziness, vagueness.
Nā te ētita i whakatikatika te mōnehunehu o ētahi o ngā kōrero. / The editor corrected the vagueness of some of the account.
