mūrere
1. (verb) to be clever, knowing, cunning, crafty, astute, interfering, intruding, hack (computers).
Ia tau, ia tau he tuku tonu te mahi a te hēkeretari o Taranaki i ngā tono utu reiti ki ngā Māori, otirā i mūrere ngā Māori kāore e tangohia aua pukapuka, engari ka waiho tonu i te poutāpeta, ā ka whakahokia anō ki te kaunihera (TP 12/1907:11). / Each year the secretary of Taranaki sends to the Māori requests for payment of rates, but they are cunning and won't take those documents, but leave them at the post office, and so they are returned to the council.
2. (modifier) clever, knowing, cunning, crafty, astute, interfering, intruding.
Kua kite a Te Rangitāke, he mahi mūrere nā te kāwanatanga ki te mana whenua o Te Āti Awa ki ō rātou whenua i Waitara (TTR 1990:290) / Te Rangitāke had seen that this was interference by the government with Te Āti Awa rights to their lands at Waitara.
Synonyms: uhumanea, mōhiotanga, muremure, atamai, ihumanea, aweko
3. (noun) clever person, cunning person, crafty person, astute person.
He naho anō a Hōhua Tāwhaki, he mūrere, nō Ngāti Porou (RK 1994:154). / Hōhua Tāwhaki was a wag, a clever person from Ngāti Porou.
4. (noun) hacker (computers).
Ka uaua rawa atu i te wā whanga te aukati i a koe mai i tō pūkete e tētahi mūrere mā tētahi kupuhipa kua whānako tonutia (LP 2017). / The waiting period makes it harder for a hacker to lock you out of your account with just a stolen password (LP 2017).
