pahore
1. (intransitive verb) to be chafed, having the skin rubbed off, bared, exposed, scraped off, raw.
Kāti, kāore e mutu te rakuraku kei raro kē hoki i te kiri te ngārara nei e huke ana. Nāwai rā, ka pahore te kiri o tēnā wahi, o tēnā wahi o te tangata e tūkinotia ana e te ngārara nei (TTT 1/8/1927:639). / Well, there's no end to the scratching while under the skin the mite is burrowing. After a while each part of the person's skin that is being attacked by this mite becomes raw.
2. (intransitive verb) to show (the teeth) - as when grinning, grimacing or snarling.
Kātahi ka pahore ngā niho o te katoa ki te kata ki taua hākui e rere ana i runga i tōna hōiho me te pupuri ngā ringa ki ngā taringa pihi (TWMNT 3/7/1872:90). / Then everybody burst into laughter at that elderly woman flying along on her horse holding on to its ears.
3. (modifier) scraped off, exposed, bared, chafed.
He mahi takoto noa te whawhaki i ngā pua hāpi, he mahi whakawhairawa mā ngā tamariki tāne māngere o ngā kāinga Māori, e hāmoemoe tonu ana i roto i te roanga o te rā, e omaoma haere kino ana rānei i runga i ngā hōiho tuarā pahore hei matenga mō rātou ake anō, me ngā tāngata e āta haere ana i ngā rori (TWMNT 22/3/1879:349). / Picking hops would be an easy and profitable employment for the lazy boys of the Māori villages who just loll about for most of the day, or race about dangerously on sore-backed horses, endangering themselves and the quiet travellers on the roads.
Synonyms: pāhorehore
4. (noun) adult whitebait, Galaxias maculatus.
Ko ngā mea nunui e kainga nei e koe he pahore, ko ngā mea ririki he inanga (W 1971:248). / The large ones that you are eating are pahore and the small ones are inanga.
See also inanga
