1. (verb) to be stout, fat, rotund, chubby, plump - sometimes as two words, i.e. puku nati.
Synonyms: māretireti, kunekune, kune, takapū, wheti
2. (noun) roly-poly, fatty, fatso.
Kātahi te tangata kunekune, ko taua pukunati rā (HKK 1999:115). / What a fat person that fatso is.
Synonyms: takaporepore
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