mōrikarika
1. (verb) to be horrible, unpleasant, abominable, disgusting, repulsive, disgusted.
E ai ki tā Te Teira i tā ai, i mōrikarika a Hīpango i tōna kitenga i te Rātapu e takatakahia mārekereketia ana i reira (TTR 1990:17). / According to what Taylor published, Hīpango was disgusted when he saw the open violations of the Sabbath there.
Synonyms: mōrihariha, whakaweriweri, weriweri
2. (modifier) horrible, unpleasant, abominable, disgusting, repulsive.
Hāngai katoa ana te kāwai whakarārangi o tōna Hāhi tae atu ki ngā whakaakoranga me ngā karakia ki tō te Hāhi Mihinare, engari i mahue ake te Kai Hapa: ki tā te Māori kātahi te mahi mōrikarika ko tēnei, ko te kai i te tinana o te Karaiti, ā, ki te nuinga o rātou he tohu whakahāwea kē tēnei i te tinana o te tangata, takahi hoki i tōna mana (TTR 1996:128). / The church's hierarchical structure, teachings and services all reflected the Church of England, but the Holy Communion was omitted: Māori thought the eating of Christ's body was abhorrent because to the majority of them it symbolised contempt for a person's body and thus destroyed its mana.
3. (noun) ills, evilness, wickedness.
Ko te mea whakamāharahara rawa atu ki a Huata, ko te whakapiki ake i te ōhanga o te tāone o Te Wairoa, kia heke ai te tokomaha o te hunga e noho kore mahi ana, kia kaua e pāngia e ngā mōrikarika o tēnei tū momo noho (TTR 2000:86). / Huata’s greatest concern, was to raise the depressed economic circumstances of the town of Wairoa so that the number of the unemployed would be reduced and that the horrible effects of this way of living would be eliminated.
