rikiriki
1. (modifier) in small fragments, into small pieces, into smithereens - indicates that something has been shattered into many small parts.
Ko te waka whakairo nei kua pāea ki te ākau, kua pakaru rikiriki (TP 4/1909:11). / This carved canoe had been wrecked on the rocky coast and it had broken up into small pieces.
He iti te matakahi, pakaru rikiriki te tōtara (TTT 13/12/1921:18). / A wedge may be small but it can break up the tōtara tree into fragments. (A whakataukī pointing out that sometimes by the clever use of equipment a huge task can be achieved with a minimum of effort.)
2. (modifier) altogether, exceedingly - an intensifier especially following words involving pain, painful emotions or the senses.
Tēnei tētahi kōrero pōuri mō te matenga o tētahi tangata ko Hāmuera Rīwai o Tikokino i kai i te waipiro i ngā rā tīmatanga o Āperira, ā, haere ana ki te mīhiini patu witi e mahi ana, ākina ana tōna ringaringa ki te taramu, naomia mai ana e te taramu kongakonga rikiriki tōna ringaringa, ā, mate tonu iho i te ata o tētahi rangi (TW 28/5/1875:91). / This is a sad story about the death of Samuel Rīwai of Tikokino who drank liquor at the beginning of April, and he went to the wheat threshing machine when it was operating and he shoved his arm into the drum and when the drum grabbed it his arm was cut up into exceedingly small bits and he died on the morning of the next day.
Kai rikiriki ai te aroha i au ki te iwi rā ē, ka tokona ki tawhiti (M 2004:212). / Sorrow is utterly consuming me for the tribe separated afar off.
