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1. vs. Flat, as a nose; low, squatty. Cf. mene, ʻūmene, ʻūpepe.

2. vs. Small, fine-meshed, as of a mat. Pepepe is more common.

3. n. Perhaps short for pepeiao 6; Emerson however gives “canoe seat” (UL 194) and “chock on which a canoe rests” (PH 114).

1. Redup. of pē 1. Naʻau pēpē (Kep. 75), modest spirit. Hanapēpē (place name), crushed bay [perhaps so called because of landslides]. He pēpē ʻōmaka no Hilo, pā i ka paʻakai, uāniʻi, a crushing of the fish ʻōmaka from Hilo, touched with salt, stiffens [of a weakling]. hoʻo.pē.pē, hō.pē.pē Redup. of hoʻopē; to flatten; humble. (2 Sam. 22.43.) (PPN pee.)

2. n. Baby. Eng. hoʻo.pē.pē To act like a baby; infantile.

v. To throw down; to throw down flat; to spread out.

2. To flatten or spread out after falling.

3. To crush. Oihk. 22:24. To bruise.

4. To make small by compression.

5. Hoo. To scatter abroad, as things crushed fine. 2 Sam. 22:43.

s. Any substance crushed fine or flattened down; that which is spread out by pressure.

adj. Broken or flattened down; broken fine; bruised; ground fine.

2. Bent; soft; pliable; rotten.

3. Morally, soft; kind; gentle; applied to the voice of a friend; ka olelo a na kanaka maikai; he waliwali ka olelo, he pepe. See UPEPE and PEPEPE.

Pepe (pē'-pē'), adj.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

Broken or flattened down; broken fine; braised; ground fine.

1. Any substance crushed fine or flattened down; that which is spread out by pressure.

2. A flat.

3. Flat side of anything.

Pepe (pē'-pē'), v.

Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To be bruised or crushed; to be beaten small.

Baby. Eng.

Baby.

crushed fine, flattened.

baby.

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