2. (noun) drunk, drunkard, wino, alcoholic.
Kātahi hoki ka utaina atu he taunu, ka kīia ko te porohaurangi kia tū rawa hei tohunga (TTR 1990:222). / And then they criticized him saying he was a drunkard appointed as a tohunga.
See also poro-
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