tapepa
1. (verb) to stumble, slip.
Ko ahau ia, wāhi iti kua tapepa ōku waewae (PT Nga Waiata 73:2). / But as for me, my feet were almost gone.
See also tapepe
2. (verb) to falter, speak indistinctly or inarticulately, totter.
Ki te tapepa te reo, ka uaua te whai haere i te ia o te kōrero (HM 2/1994:11). / If the language falters it's difficult to follow the flow of the talk.
3. (verb) to be astray.
E tino hē katoa ana aua whakamārama, e tapepa ana hoki ētehi wāhi o te waiata (M 2004:236). / The explanations are all quite inaccurate and some parts of the song are well astray.
