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hoʻopūnini

/ hoʻo.pū.nini / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

To demonstrate pleasure at seeing one, as a child or dog; to cling to as with delight, frisk about happily; to perform ritual with the object of pleasing the gods (rare).

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Hoopunini (ho'o-pū'-nĭ'-ni), v.

/ ho'o-pū'-nĭ'-ni / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To go here and there out of a straight course; to tack, as a ship; to sail crookedly; to float here and there: Ke hoopunini nei no ke alii i ka moana maluna o ka waapa, The king floats here and there over the ocean in a boat.

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