pukuriri
1. (verb) to be angry, cross, hostile, furious, fuming, livid, irate, incensed, outraged, infuriated.
Ka pukuriri ia ki a mātau, ka patua mātau e ia ki tōna pōtae harakeke (HP 1991:24). / When he was angry with us he would hit us with his flax hat.
Synonyms: takariri, riri, whakatakariri, wheke, tūpehupehu, kua puhipuhi te tero o Tāwhiri
2. (modifier) angry, irate, livid.
I kai ai i ō mātou hoariri, hei ngaki i te mauāhara a te ngākau pukuriri, ehara i te mate kai i kainga ai te tangata, engari he kai i te hoariri, kia ngata ai te ngākau kino ki a ia (JPS 1896:4). / We ate our enemies to satisfy the hatred of the angry heart, not through hunger after man's flesh, but enemies were eaten to assuage the bitter feelings towards them.
Synonyms: wheke, kua puhipuhi te tero o Tāwhiri
3. (noun) anger, wrath, hostility, enmity.
Ka tīmata te pupuhi ko te matenga tonutanga tēnei o te Rūhia, i te ohorere o te kōkiri a Toko, i te kaha, i te pukuriri, kua pōrahurahu noa iho te Rūhia (TP 6/1905:6). / When the bombardment began this was the downfall of the Russians and because of the suddenness, strength and ferociousness of Togo's attack, the Russians were quite confounded.
puku
1. (modifier) very - intensifier when used before or after the word it qualifies, e.g. puku horo kai (ravenous), pukukai (greedy, gluttonous), pukuriri (furious).
Heoi, ka noho nei te taniwha, ko tana mahi, he patu i ngā tira haere; arā, he kai i ngā tāngata, horopuku tonu, ahakoa he kawenga tā te tangata, ka horomia pukutia e taua taniwha (JPS 1905:200). / And so the taniwha remained there. His occupation was killing the travelling parties - that is, he used to swallow them whole, even if they had loads on their backs they were swallowed up by that taniwha.
