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piʻikoi

/ piʻi.koi / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

vt., To claim honors not rightfully due, to seek preferment, to aspire to the best or to more than is one's due; to claim to be of higher rank than one is.

  • Examples:
    • Mai piʻikoi i ka ʻamaʻama, don't strive for the ʻamaʻama [this fish was very choice; the meaning is: be satisfied with what you have, why aim for the moon].
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PII-KO-I

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

v. To go after, as the desire after this and that.

2. To practice onanism.

Piikoi (pi'i-kō'-i), v.

/ pi'i-kō'-i / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. To be inordinately ambitious.

2. To seek preferment; to go after something desired.

Piʻikoi

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Honolulu street running through the Makiki area probably named for David Ka-hale-pouli Piʻikoi, father of David Ka-wānana-koa and Kū-hiō Ka-lani-ana-ʻole. David Piʻikoiʻs father, Jonah Piʻikoi, owned a large section of the Ke-walo area and built the first two-story wooden house in that area near the present McKinley High School. (TM.) Lit., lofty aspirations.

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