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n.v., Prolonged sound or thing; sound of chanting, vibration, whistle of a train; whistling of a bull-roarer; drawn out wail of an infant; long, prolonged.

• Preceded by ke.
• Figuratively, to assume a superior air.
• Examples:
  • Nānā aku ʻoe, ke kūkulu maila ke oe, look, acting superior there.

pers. pron., second pers. sing. Thou; you; like au, it often takes o emphatic, as ooe; ooe no kau i manao ai, you thought of yourself; e noho oe me ka makaukau, do you sit ready.

v. See O. To prick; to probe; ke oe aku nei ia ia oukou me ka laau oioi, he pricks you with a sharp stick; to pick up, as with anything sharp.

v. To grate harshly, as one thing rubbing against another.

s. A continued indistinct sound, as an axe upon a grindstone; as a pen drawn hard upon paper.

s. An inverted cone.

2. Epithet of a man who walks genteelly; superiority in some respects; kukulu ka oe, spoken of one riding or running swiftly on foot.

3. Epithet of a beautiful woman.

4. A lengthening; a stretching out of the neck. Isa. 3:16, 5. A monument; a pillar or sign of something.

adj. Long; applied to the neck of a person or thing; oeoe hoi ka a-i, he maikai no nae, long are their necks, but still they are handsome; oeoe ka a-i o ka manu nene, long is the neck of the goose.

2. Applied to a sail; he pea oeoe, he kiekie, a long, high sail; applied to a house; hale oeoe; kukulu hou i hale oeoe a kapu.

Same as owe.

second pers. sing. Thou; you. Like au, it often takes o emphatic, ooe; ooe no kau i manao ai, you thought of yourself; e noho oe me ka makaukau, sit ready; be prepared.

Same as o. To prick; to probe: ke oe aku nei ia ia oukou me ka laau oioi: he pricks you with a sharp stick; to pick up, as with anything sharp.

[Properly owe.]

1. To whiz, as a hall or grape-shot through the air.

2. To make an indistinct continued sound; Heaha la keia mea e oeoe ae nei? What is this thing that whizzes by us so?

3. To murmur, as a purling brook or running water.

Continued sound of the surf. Also called oeoe. (A.)

Word for a beautiful woman; long, applied to the neck of a person.