wīwī
/ wī.wī /1. vs., Thin, lean, slender, bony, skinny, rickety, emaciated.
- Examples:
- Pā wīwī, rickety, insecure fence.
- References:
- See ex., pīoeoe.
- PPN iwiiwi.
2. Reduplication of wī #2, to squeal.
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WI-WI
v. See WI. To be poor; to be shriveled up.
2. Hoo. To lessen; to diminish; a i ke kalai ana, e hoonui ae o mua, a e hoowiwi ae o hope, e kalai a maikai.
3. To grow poor in flesh, as a person or animal. Zek. 14:12.
WI-WI
s. Leanness of flesh. Iob. 16:8.
2. The name of a beer made from sugarcane.
3. A small kind of fish.
WI-WI
adj. Poor in flesh; slender; feeble. Kin. 41:6. Opposite to ohaha.
WI-WI
adj. Full; plenty; no want; applied to a chief’s plate where there is always plenty; as, pa wiwi, a full plate; a sufficiency of food.
Wiwi (wĭ-wĭ), n.
/ wĭ-wĭ /An inferior liquor made from ti root.
Wiwi (wĭ'-wĭ'), adj.
/ wĭ'-wĭ' /Poor flesh; slender; feeble. Opposite to ohaha.
Wiwi (wĭ'-wĭ'), n.
/ wĭ'-wĭ' /Leanness of flesh.
Wiwi (wĭ'-wĭ'), v.
/ wĭ'-wĭ' /[Wi, famine.]
1. To be poor; to be shriveled up.
2. To grow poor in flesh, as a person or animal.
wīwī
old Hawaii, but the squeal (wīwī) of the native rodent is no longer heard, it having been supplanted by the more formidable Norway rat.
wīwī
Lean; to grow poor in flesh, as a person. (Zek. 14:12.)
wīwī
Poor in flesh; slender, feeble. (Kin. 41:6.)
wi’wi’
lean, feeble: to be shriveled up.
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