tautauhea
1. (personal noun) low status person, low-born person.
Kaitoa kia ngaua koe e te hemokai, e tautauhea mā, i ōu kuware, i ōu māngere (KO 14/6/1884:9). / Serves you right that you are starving because of your ignorance and your laziness, you lowborn people.
Synonyms: tautauwhea
2. (modifier) degrading, debauched, decadent, depraved, disreputable, sordid, debasing, demeaning, disgraceful, undignified.
Tineia kia mate ēnei tikanga tautauhea (KO 15/11/1883:5). / Wipe out these degrading practices.
3. (noun) degradation, debauchery, decadence, degeneracy, depravity.
Ko te tino tautauhea o ngā Māori o reira, tutū ana te puehu i a rātou i runga i ngā tikanga poke o te waipiro (KO 15/12/1884:3). / The natives there are quite debauched, and they cause disturbances due to the sordid effects of liquor.
4. (noun) commoner, plebeian.
Ki ōku whakaaro, katoa ngā whakaeke marae he hanga pērā te āhua, ahakoa te momo manuhiri, manuhiri tūārangi mai, whanaunga mai, tuahangata mai, tautauhea mai, hoa mai, pakeke mai, tamariki mai, ērā manuhiri e whakaeke mai ana ki runga i te marae (Rewi 2005:62). / In my opinion, all welcomes on the marae are like that, no matter what type of visitors, visitors from afar, relatives, the famous, commoners, friends, adults, children, they are all guests coming onto the marae.
Synonyms: kāraroraro, kurumetometo, tautauwhea, mahimahi, hauhauā, hūnguengue
5. (noun) coward.
Mōhio ai koa te mano ki ngā tautauhea, ki ngā parakūkā, ki ngā pōrangi, ki ngā whakaaro-iti, ki ngā parangetungetu, ki ngā ngākau-rahirahi, ki ngā kōpūrua, ki ngā rorirori, ki ngā heahea, ki ngā pōrewarewa (KO 14/4/1883:5). / Many people know cowards, scroungers, the mentally ill, the shallow thinkers, the corrupted, the callous people, the indecisive, the stupid ones, the idiots and the senseless ones.
