manuheko
1. (verb) to be dirty, filthy, disreputable, unclean, soiled, grimy, nasty.
Mehemea kāore e karakiatia e kore e oti te moko, ahakoa tāne, wahine rānei, heoi anō manuheko tonu atu, kāore e pai ki te titiro atu (TPH 27/2/1905:3). / If ritual chants are not performed the moko will not be completed, whether a man or woman, and so it will be nasty and not pleasant to look at.
2. (modifier) dirty, filthy, disreputable, unclean, soiled, grimy, nasty.
Ko te kai e ora ai rātou, he hua rākau, he weri rākau, me ngā ika e mau ana i a rātou; tērā atu hoki he kai anō nā rātou ngā huhu, ngā ngata, ngā opohama, me ētahi atu mea manuheko, whakaweriweri nei (TWMNT 1/12/1874:301). / The food that they subsist on are fruit and roots, with the fish they catch, together with grubs, snails, opossums, and other nasty, revolting things.
Synonyms: maniheko, whakaweriweri
3. (noun) dirtiness, filthiness, uncleanliness, nastiness.
E kōrerotia ana he nui te manuheko o tā rātou mahi ki te kaitangata (TWMNT 22/2/1879:317). / Horrible accounts are given of their practice of cannibalism.
Synonyms: whakaweriweri, weriweri
