1. n. A sea creature, perhaps Aplysia dactylomela or A. juliana.
2. vi. To quiver, quake, as jelly. Hulihia ka moku, nakeke ka ʻāina, kualakai, kūhulukū ka mauna (old prayer), overturned is the island, rumbling the land, quivering and quaking are the mountains.
3. nvt. Raw fish mashed to a pulp; to be hand-fed this pulp by the kau method.
4. n. Swelling, obesity. Rare.
s. The name of a species of fish.
s. The eating of fresh fish pounded up finely and mixed with other things. NOTE.— The malolo was the fish frequently served up in this way.
s. A swelling up of the cheeks, perhaps the abdomen, from rich eating, perhaps from disease.
Large; fleshy; full; very fat.
1. A sea-slug (Nudibranchiata), called also pilikoa.
2. The eating of fresh fish pressed to a pulp and mixed with other ingredients. (The malolo was the fish frequently served in this manner.)
3. A swelling of the body from eating rich food or from disease
[Kuala, to toss with the hand, and kai, a liquid dressing for food.]
1. To prepare raw fish for food by pressing to a pulp: Kualakai iho ka ia, Press the fish to a pulp. (So called because the food thus prepared was tossed into the mouth.)
Area near Barber's Pt., Oʻahu. A spring here is called Hoaka-lei (lei reflection) because Hiʻiaka picked lehua flowers here to make a lei and saw her reflection in the water. Lit., Tethys (a sea creature).
Beach, Kalaeloa, Oʻahu. Calcareous sand beach at the east end of the Kalaeloa Community Development District. Also known as White Plains Beach. Name of a sea cucumber (Aplysia dachylomela or A. Juliana).
Kind of raw fish mashed finely with other foods in preparation for hand-feeding in pulp form by the kau method. (PE.) Mālolo fish were frequently served in this way. (A.)
E huli iā “kualakai” ma Ulukau.
Search for “kualakai” on Ulukau.