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hamuti

1. (noun) faeces, excrement, poo, dung, droppings, stools.

Pēhia ai te tahā ki raro i te wai kia kore ai e uru he hamuti ki roto (TTT 1/12/1929:1935). / The calabash was pushed down into the water so that excrement would not enter.

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See also kimi hamuti, [tō/ō] hamuti!

Synonyms: roke, tūtae, hamiti


2. (noun) latrine, long drop, privy, lavatory, toilet.

Hangā kia pai ngā kāpata e rua - mō ngā kai, ā, mō te hamuti, ā, kia pai hoki ngā taupoki (TTT 1/10/1929:1089). / Build the two cupboards well - for food and the latrine, and make good lids for them.

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Synonyms: whareiti, turuma, whare paku, heketua, wharetiko, wharepaku

roke

1. (noun) faeces, excrement, shit, dung, poo.

Ko ngā purapura e rere atu ai taua mate urutā i tētahi tangata ki tētahi tangata, e piri ai rānei i te tangata ki te kiore, i te kiore rānei ki te tangata, e puta atu ana i roto i te mimi, i te roke, i te hūare rānei o te tūroro (TPH 15/8/1900:2). / The germs of that epidemic disease spread from one person to another, or spread from a person to a rat, or a rat to a person, and appear in the urine, the faeces or the saliva of the patient.

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Synonyms: hamuti, tūtae, hamiti

tūtae

1. (noun) dung, excrement, shit, faeces, poo, droppings, stools.

Ka kite a Te Matata i te tūtae e tū ana, ka whatia e ia, ka mōhio a ia he tūtae hou, ka hoki whakamuri ia me te mōhio haere, kei te kite tonu atu te tāpae (MT 2011:73). / Te Matata saw some faeces piled up and he broke it and then knew it was fresh and he retreated realising that the advance war party was watching.

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Synonyms: hamuti, roke, hamiti


2. (noun) also used as the first part of the names of a number of small plants.

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.

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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.

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hamiti

1. (noun) faeces, excrement, poo, dung, droppings, stools.

Ā ka waiho te tinana o Ietepere hei para hamiti ki runga ki te mate o te pārae i te wāhi o Ietereere (PT 2Kingi 9:37). / And the carcass of Jez'ebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel.

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Synonyms: hamuti, roke, tūtae

parakaeto

1. (noun) piece of dung - used as a term of disapproval.

Te parakaeto nā e kore nei e whakarongo ngā taringa! / That piece of dung will never listen!

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paratūtae

1. (noun) dung, excrement, droppings.

I tō mātou kāinga he mea whāngai ngā parakai o te kāuta ki ngā noke. Hei whakamōmona i te oneone o tā mātou māra te mimi me te paratūtae o ngā noke. / In our home the food scraps of the kitchen are fed to the worms. The urine and excrement of the worms is used to enrich the soil of our garden.

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