2. (modifier) clumsy, awkward, inept, bumbling, uncoordinated, blundering, ham-fisted.
Kāore hoki i ngaro i te huhua o te iwi o te wā kāinga me te hunga tōrangapū whānui tonu, te rerekētanga i waenganui i ngā mahi pakihawa a Wī Pere ki ō rātau whenua i raro i te kamupene i pakaru rā, me āna mahi ki te whakanui haere i ōna whenua me ōna tōnuitanga (TTR 1994:85). / The contrast between his blundering with their land in the defunct company and his activities to increase his own land accumulation and rising fortune was not lost on many local people, nor on the political community generally.
3. (noun) pectoral fin - the most anterior of the paired fins, situated in the breast region of the fish.
Te okenga i oke ai te pane me te hiku, me ngā urutira, me ngā pakihawa (NM 1928:16). / They cut the head, the tail, the gills and the pectoral fins.
