tiko
1. (verb) to have a bowel motion, shit, defecate.
He rango tētahi mea maumau haere i ngā ngārara o te mate nei. Ki te tiko koraha tētahi tangata kua tīmata te pāngia e te mate nei, ka tau te rango ki runga i tōna paru. Ka piri ki runga i taua rango ngā purapura o te mate nei. Ka rere te rango nei, ka tau ki runga ki ngā kai a te tangata. Ka whakarērea ngā purapura ki runga i aua kai (TRA 1/3/1929:946). / A blowfly is one thing that carries the bacteria of this disease. If a person who has begun to be affected by this disease defecates out in the open, and a blowfly lands on his faeces, the seeds of this disease will adhere to that blowfly. This blowfly will fly off and settle on a person's food and the infection will be left on that food.
2. (noun) faeces, shit, droppings, dung, excrement, stools, defecation.
I ngā kāinga o mua, he wāhi motuhake tonu mō te tiko (Ng 1993:85). / In the settlements of earlier times, there were special places for defecation.
