puhipuhi
1. (verb) (pūhia,-tia) to bunch up.
Ko te uru, he kehu, arā, i āhua whero, ā, kāhore i tikitikia; he mea puhipuhi kia pūhihi, ā nui noa atu te āhua pokuru, me te āhua whanewhane nei i te tū mai (JPS 1896:4). / Their hair was also light-coloured, that is reddish, and never bound up in a top-knot, it was bunched out to be stiff, and appeared in lumps (or tufts), and they looked irritable as they stood there.
2. (verb) (-a,-tia) to decorate with feathers or hair.
He tino kūare rawa ngā iwi Hauhau ki te pūtoi kererū hei puhipuhi mō tana tewhatewha (TWM 26/8/1865:5). / The Hauhau tribes were very uninformed about bunches of pigeon feathers as adornment for his tewhatewha.
3. (noun) topknot, bunch of feathers, treasure.
4. (noun) feather ornaments on a canoe.
Ka oti tēnā, ka tīmata rātou ki te whakanoho i ngā puhipuhi o te waka (JPS 1957:223). / When that was done they commenced to set the plumes of the canoe into place.
