2. (modifier) rejecting, spurning, rebuffing, reluctant.
Kāore hoki au i kaha ki te whakamāori katoa i ngā kōrero o tēnei hui tamariki Pākehā, a te mea hanga i riro iti mai taua reo i ahau, i runga i te ngākau parahako (TWMNT 30/11/1875:283). / And I am not able to translate all that was said at this meeting of the Pākehā children because I have obtained only a little of that language because of my reluctant attitude.
Synonyms: whawhati, whakatoitoi, korongatā, whakatohetohe, manawa pā, korou kore, whakatenetene, whakauaua, manauhea, whakatōngā, whakawhēuaua, horokukū, whakakumu, kōroiroi
3. (noun) rejection, anything rejected.
Te parahako o te koekoeā (NP 2001:384). / The long-tailed cuckoo's rejected one. (A term for a child rejected by its parents like the egg of a cuckoo which it lays in the nest of another species.)
Synonyms: ākiri, whakahoe, whakatoitoi, whakarere
