1. nvt. Greed; to covet, extort, take property by force. Cf. ʻālunu, ʻānunu, lunu. (Perhaps PPN -nu; cf. Tongan mānu-, to be always wanting.)
2. vt. Swollen, puffed up; to swell up; to swathe or roll up, as an article in tapa; to fold, bind. Ua hoʻomaka naʻe ke ʻano nunu mai o nā kuʻemaka (Kel. 18), the eyebrows began to be puffed up [raised]. (PPN ngungu.)
v. See LUNU, n for l. To covet, as the property of another, and to use some means of obtaining it. See also ALUNU.
v. To provoke.
2. To swell up; to swell up in places.
3. To roll up, as paper; e owili, e wihi.
s. See NU. A moaning; a groaning; a grunting, as of hogs; a cooing of doves; hence,
2. A dove; a pigeon from the noise they make; nunu opiopio, a young pigeon. Oih. 1:14.
3. An endearing epithet like my dear chicken. Mel. Sol. 2:14.
4. The name of a species of fish; the pipe fish.
adj. Groaning, as of persons in pain; grunting like hogs; cooing like doves.
2. Taciturn; unsocial; sullen; displeased; applied only to persons. See NUNUHA.
Groaning, as of persons in pain; grunting like hogs; cooing like doves.
1. A species of trumpet fish (Aulostomus valentini).
2. A dove; a pigeon.
3. A silent or unsocial person.
1. To covet, as the property of another, and to use some means of obtaining it. Syn: Alunu.
2. To swell up; to swell up in places. Syn: Onu.
3. To roll up, as paper; e owili.
To swell up, as in some forms of leprosy. (CMH.)
To covet, as the property of another; greedy.
Taciturn, unsocial, sullen, displeased. Applies only to men. (A.) Greed; to covet, extort. (PE.)
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