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huahua

/ hua.hua / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. vi., Fruitful, productive, prolific; to bear many fruits; to lay many eggs.

2. Testicles.

3. n., A vulgar gesture of contempt made by thrusting the thumb between index and middle fingers with the fist clenched, or the fist held up to the face and the eyelid drawn down. With the gesture one sometimes said, “Eia kāu ʻo ka huahua,” “Here's your huahua gesture.”

  • Related:
    • hoʻohuahua Caus/sim.; To make the huahua gesture.

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huā.huā, huāhuwā

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

Redup. of huā. See ex., peʻa #1, For. 4:129, 131. Ā huāhuā maila kō Pilisetia iāia (Kin. 26.14), and the Philistines envied him.

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huʻahuʻa

/ huʻa.huʻa / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. Reduplication of huʻa #1; foam, froth, lather, bubbling, frothing.

  • Examples:
    • Ua loʻohia ʻoia e kekahi ʻuhane, auē koke nō ia … ā huʻahuʻa aʻe (Luka 9.39), a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cried out … until [he] foams.
  • Related:
    • hoʻohuʻahuʻa Caus/sim. Rare
  • References:
    • PCP fukafuka, sukasuka; perhaps PEP.

2. n., Jelly.

  • Rare

3. See huʻahuʻa kai.

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huʻahuʻa

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao (2003+),

Kokoleka me ka waiū huʻahuʻa. Chocolate with frothed milk.

HU-A-HU-A

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. See HUA and HUAHUWA below. To foam; to froth at the mouth, as one in a fit. Luk. 9:39. To froth, as the sea in dashing ashore. Iuda 13.

2. To turn away in disgust; to hate; to envy. Kin. 26:14. Huahua mai la na punahele mua. Laieik. 31.

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HU-A-HU-A

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. See HUAHUA above. Foam or froth, as of the sea or anything causing froth.

2. A bunch or kernel in the flesh, as in hogs or other animals; especially applied where many huahuas are growing together.

3. Small swellings about the eye, the forehead and neck.

4. See HUA, to be envious. An evil eye; looking with disdain upon another; envy.

Huahua (hū'a-hū'a), n.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Foam or froth; an aggregation of bubbles.

Huahua (hū'a-hu'a), v.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

[Freq. of hua, foam.] To gather foam; to froth.

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