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kīkeʻekeʻe

/ kī.keʻe.keʻe / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

Reduplication of kīkeʻe; zigzag.

  • Examples:
    • Alanui kīkeʻekeʻe, road with many turns.

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v. See KEE and KEEKEE. To crook; to bend; to move crookedly.

adj. Crooked; zigzag, as a path; he kikeekee ke ala; not straight.

2. In a moral sense, wrong; perverted; erroneous; mai hele oe ma ke ala kikeekee o ka aina o kaua, o kuia auanei oe a hina; aka, e hele oe ma ke ala pololei, go not in the crooked path of our land, lest ere long you stumble and fall, but go in the straight path.

3. Kikeekee is the opposite of pololei.

s. A winding or crooked path.

Kikeekee (kī'-ke'e-ke'e), adj.

/ kī'-ke'e-ke'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. Crooked; zigzag, as a path: he kikeekee ke ala, not straight.

2. Wrong, in a moral sense; perverted: mai hele oe ma ke ala kikeekee o ka aina o kaua, o kuia auanei oe a hina; aka, e hele oe ma ke ala pololei; go not in the crooked path of our land, lest ere long you stumble and fall, but go in the straight path. (Pololei means straight or upright.)

Kikeekee (kī'-ke'e-ke'e), n.

/ kī'-ke'e-ke'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

A winding or crooked path.

Kikeekee (k&#299'-ke'e-ke'e), v.

/ k&#299'-ke'e-ke'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To crook; to bend. See kee.

2. To form or move in short turns; to proceed in a zigzag course.

Wrong, perverted, as in a moral sense. This is the opposite of pololei, to be correct, naturally or morally.

zigzag.

A winding or crooked path (AP).

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