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hōkeo

/ hō.keo / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., Long gourd calabash, as used to hold food, clothing, fishing gear; any cooking pot. Figuratively, an empty container, a trifle.

  • Examples:
    • He wahi hōkeo wale nō, just an empty container [to have or know nothing].
  • References:

2. vt., To cherish secretly, as love.

  • Examples:
    • E hōkeo iho i ke aloha (song), cherish the love.

3. n., A variety of sweet potato.

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s. The lower of two gourds which compose the drum.

2. He hulilau, a calabash to put clothes in when traveling on a canoe.

Hokeo (ho'-ke'-o), n.

/ ho'-ke'-o / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. The lower of two gourds which compose the Hawaiian drum.

2. A long calabash used as a receptacle for clothing or for a fisherman's outfit. It was made of the gourd of the vine (Lagenaria vulgaris). Also called hulilau.

Hokeo (ho'-ke'-o), v.

/ ho'-ke'-o / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To cherish in secrecy a sentimental thought.

E hokeo iho i ke aloha,
Poipoi Ahuiho i nalo.

Elongated gourd used as a container for fishing gear including lines.

Gourd calabash for clothes when traveling in a canoe; large, high, straight gourd or calabash for the wardrobe of the chiefs.

Lower of the two gourds of a drum. (A.) Also called ʻolo.

Variety of sweet potato. (HP 141.)

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