whakakaitoa
1. (verb) (-tia) to express satisfaction.
Tāwaia mai taku mate, e te tangata, whakakaitoatia mai; otiia tēnei taku kapu ki a koe, e te tangata e whakakaitoa ana, "Ko tōna hēnga hei whakatūpato i a tātou." (MM.TKM 16/12/1861:14). / Scoff at my loss, my man, express your satisfaction, but my word to you, my man who is expressing satisfaction, is, "Let his fault be a warning to us."
2. (modifier) vengeful, unforgiving.
Mehemea, ka haere i runga i te kūwaretanga, i te wāina, i te pia, i te parani, me ērā atu kai whakatautauhea i te tangata, tērā e kite i tā rātou māreherehe, i ngā māniania, i ngā whakatenetene; ā, ka whakatiorotia ngā taringa ki ngā karanga whakakaitoa, o te tini, o te mano (KO 15/3/1884:4). / If they had gone in ignorance with wine, beer, brandy and other substances that debauch people, then we would understand their trouble, the problems and the annoyance, and we would have been assailed with the strident recriminating calls of the masses.
3. (noun) revenge, vengeance.
Kore i roa te rongo o Airini i te konakona o tana whakakaitoa ina raru nei i a ia a Gertrude Meinertzhagen, nō te mea, nō te 7 o Hune 1909 ka hemo mai a Airini ki Ōtātara (TTR 1994:17). / Airini did not savour her revenge over Gertrude Meinertzhagen because Airini died on 7 June 1909 at Ōtātara.
