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kīkī

/ kī.kī. / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert,

1. Reduplication of kī, to shoot, as a gun; to incite or sick, as a dog; to spout.

  • Examples:
    • Kīkī māka, target shooting.
    • Kīkī manu, to shoot birds.
  • Related:
    • Waikīkī (name), spouting water [a reference to the many springs and streams in the Waikīkī ahupuaʻa that extended far inland].
    • hoʻokīkī Caus/sim.
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2. vi., To do up the hair in a type of knot.

3. n., Crude temporary basket or bundle, as made of ʻilima, ti, or morning-glory plants and used to carry food.

  • Rare

4. n., A bird resembling the plover.

5. n., Name given a shellfish.

  • References:
    • KL. line 33.

6. n., A seaweed.

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kīkī

Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

hamani, To spray.

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Kīkī

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi,

Land area near Koaʻe, Puna, Hawaiʻi, named for the kīkī bird that nested together with a koaʻe bird; the koaʻe bird faced the area known as Koaʻe, and the kīkī bird faced Kīkī. According to some, both birds stole wild taro until they were destroyed by the demigod Pīkoi-a-ka-ʻalalā.

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