1. n., Tail feathers, as of a cock; rump, as of a chicken; streamer; coattails; this word is used as a means of avoiding answering questions: Aia ʻoia i hea? Aia i ka puapua. Where is he? Gone to get tail feathers.
2. Reduplication of pua #2.
3. n., Spike in the back of sphinx moths.
4. Same as pupua #3.
5. n., A variety of banana.
6. Same as ʻāpua #2, fishhook shank.
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v. To force; to urge on; to compel. See PUEPUE. To overwhelm; to overcome.
2. To hang down like the tail of an animal.
3. To project like the tail feathers of a cock.
4. To be glorious; to be beautiful.
s. See PUA, bundle. A bundle of brush-wood, sticks or grass. Oih. 28:3.
2. The name of a fly that bites.
adj. Unpalatable; disagreeable; vicious.
Nauseous.
[Pua, bundle.] A bundle of brush-wood, sticks or grass.
1. The long tail feathers of a bird.
2. A streamer.
1. To force; to urge on; to compel.
2. To collect into bundles and bind.
1. To hang down like the tail of an animal.
2. To project like the tail feathers of a cock.
[Puaa, to bind tightly.] To gather up into a bundle, as fagots or sticks for kindling a fire.
Land sections, Kai-lua qd., and in the Kaʻū district, Hawaiʻi. A lava tube where people hid in time of war is in the Kaʻū Puapua. Probably lit., tail feathers.
To project out and up, as the tail feathers of a cock.
Anal horn or spike on the sphinx-moth larva; fly that bites. (A.)
Nauseous.
tail feathers; coat tails.
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