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vt. To peer, peep, as through a door or crevice; to look at slyly; to protrude forth. Kekē nā niho kiʻei, the protruding teeth were exposed.

kiʻei

hamanitransitive verb Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

hamani, To peer, i.e. look narrowly or searchingly at something.

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kīʻei

hamanitransitive verb / kī•ʻei / Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

hamani, To peer, look at.

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Kiei (kī'-ē'i), v.

/ kī'-ē'i / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To look into; to scrutinize; to peep at: oi imi aku i ka manao, oi huli aku, oi halalo aku, a kiei aku, a nana iho; a kiei malalo o ka papale o na haole, they peeped under the bonnets of the foreigners (women).

2. To look at one by stretching the head around or over something; to look over in order to see anything.

3. To look slyly; e nana malu.

4. To watch the conduct of one: ke kiei mai nei no ia i ka poe uhai kanawai.

5. To look at a particular object; kiei aku la au makai a mauka, a holo aku la au, I looked seaward and inland and ran away.

6. To look through a door or crevice to see something. (Laieik. p. 174.)

Kiʻei

WahiLocation, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Bay, southwest Lā-naʻi. Land area near Kau-pō, Maui. Lit., peer (a half-human shark [manō kanaka] peered at the land and seeing no growing taro remarked that the land was bare).

to look into, peep at.

E huli iā “kiʻei” ma Ulukau.

Search for “kiʻei” on Ulukau.

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