whatutoto
1. (verb) to be advanced, mature, experienced.
Inā eke ana ki te wā e hōhonu haere ai ngā whakaaro, kua tareka e ia te tīkaro ake ngā hōhonutanga i whāngaihia atu ki roto i te kōrero ngahau. He tohu pea kua whatutoto haere (HM 2/1995:2). / When one reaches the time that ideas are becoming deeper one is able to pick out the deeper messages that are being delivered in entertaining addresses. That is probably an indiction that they are advancing.
Synonyms: whakapakeke, pāhake, pakeke, taipakeke, tūpakeke, pakari, taikaumātua, koeke
2. (modifier) advanced.
Nā tēnei iwi whatutoto, pakanga, ahuwhenua hoki i whakamate te iwi Moriori (Te Ara 2017). / This advanced, warlike, agricultural people destroyed the Moriori.
3. (noun) red heartwood (tōtara or mataī).
