1. (verb) to pant, sob.
Kōrero ahiahi, tūmata ngaingai (TP 10/1908:7). / Talk in the evening is lighting fires and planting (NP 2001:243). (This whakataukī is a euphemism for, or an allusion, to sexual activity)
Synonyms: tūngāngā, kuhakuha, mapumapu, mapu, whakaaeaea, whakahotuhotu, taretare, hotu, kahekahe, huatare, kihakiha
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