hauarea
1. (adjective) be of no account, trivial, insignificant, inconsequential, unimportant, common.
Ka hoki aku mahara ki ngā koroua whaikōrero kua kite ake au i te tekau tau 1980 e whaikōrero ana i ō rātou hingareti, ētahi i ō rātou kamupūtu, ētahi i ō rātou kākahu mahi tonu. Ahakoa te pērā, nā te pai o ngā kōrero ka warea pērā kēhia tō titiro, he hauarea noa iho te momo kākahu i mau ai ērā koroua (Rewi 2005:88). / I remember the orators that I have seen in the 1980s delivering their speeches in their singlets, some in their gumboots, some in their work clothes.
Synonyms: taitāhae, hangahanga, kotokoto, hanganoa, hauwarea
2. (modifier) of no account, trivial, insignificant, inconsequential, unimportant, common.
Māu e tuku atu aku kupu hauarea nei hai tirohanga iho mā aku hoa (KO 16/3/1888:10). / Please send out my inconsequential words for my friends to look at.
3. (noun) thinness, leanness, skinniness, emaciation.
Ka aroha te hauarea o ana kau i te roa o te tauraki (PK 2008:86). / How sad for his cows which are skinny from the long drought.
4. (noun) coward, cowardice.
Whakarērea ana ngā tāngata i runga i te kāreti e taua hauarea kia mate ana (TWMNT 30/10/1878:98). / The people on the carriage were abandoned by that coward to die.
