kukuku
1. vs., Pimpled, pimply.
2. n., Hawaiian soap plant (Colubrina asiatica 🌐).
- References:
- See ʻānapanapa.
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kukukū
/ kuku.kū /1. Reduplication of kukū 1.
- Examples:
- Kukukū mai auaheʻi nā wāwae o ʻoukou, your feet will likely be pricked by burs.
2. nvi., Sound of boiling water; to sound thus; sputtering.
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kūkūkū
/ kū.kū.kū /Reduplication of kukū #2, standing, rising up.
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KU-KU-KU
s. The rising of anger.
2. Whatever is full of holes, i. e., of little value.
3. Sickness; weakness.
4. The disease called the piles.
5. Strong steam.
6. A name given to the soap plant of the Hawaiian Islands.
KU-KU-KU
v. A reduplication of ku, to stand. To stand uprightly; to stand together; to sit together; to sleep together.
kukuku
/ kŭ'-kū'-ku /1. adj., Wormeaten, describing that which is eaten into by the huhu, a worm that bores into wood.
2. adj., Enfeebled; worn out.
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Kukuku (kū'-kŭ-kū'), n.
/ kū'-kŭ-kū' /1. A rising, as of anger; mental tumult.
2. Great stir; agitation, as a boiling, bubbling, surging, etc.
3. [Mod.] The soapwort.
Kukuku (kū'-kŭ-kū'), v.
/ kū'-kŭ-kū' /[Reduplication of the word ku, to stand.]
1. To stand together; to be united in action.
2. To act pompously; to display vanity by one's own actions.
Kūkūkū
Gulch, Airport qd., south Molokaʻi; a fishpond was located here.
kukuku
Piles. (A.) Pimply. (PE.)
kukuku
ʻĀnapanapa, a smooth shrub, Colubrina asiatica. (NEAL 541.) See Plants: Uses, ʻānapanapa.
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