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vs., Paralyzed, numb, feeble-minded, crazy.

• Examples:
  • Lōlō moe hālau, stupid one who sleeps in a workshop [a lazybones].
• Related:
  • hoʻolōlō Caus/sim.; To pretend paralysis, stupidity; to pretend to be asleep.
• References:
  • See paka lōlō.

1. n., Brains, bone marrow.

• Examples:
  • Kau ka lā i ka lolo, the sun rests on the brains [it is noon; usually now without other connotation, but formerly believed a time with great mana as a man's aka (shadow, image) was no longer visible and was thought to have entered his sacred head—Nānā 123–4].
  • Lolo ʻeleu, active mind or intelligence.
• Related:
  • PPN lolo, oily; PEP brains; cf. lololo #2.

2. nvs., Religious ceremony at which the brain of the sacrificed animal was eaten (such ceremonies occurred at a canoe launching, start of journey, completion of instruction); to have completed the lolo ceremony, hence expert, skilled.

• Examples:
  • He lolo ʻau moana, seafaring expert.
  • Aʻo ihola ʻo Halemano i ka hula … pau ke aʻo ʻana, lolo ihola i ka puaʻa (FS 275), Halemano learned the hula … after learning, a pig was offered ceremonially.

3. n., Pithy, white sponge in a sprouting coconut.

• Related:
  • Also: iho.

4. n., Long slender pole placed above the second ridgepole of a house, functioning as a batten for the attachment of additional layers of thatch.

• Related:
  • Also: lolo ʻiole.

5. n., First brew made from ti root.

6. Short for hīnālea ʻakilolo, a fish.

• References:
  • PCP lolo.

7. Same as holowaʻa, sheath covering coconut flowers.

8. interj., Serves you right! I told you so!