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1. nvs., Animation varying from fury and storm to power and majesty; violent, furious, powerful, animated; violence, fury, anger, majesty, animation.

• Examples:
  • Waiho kāhela i ka laʻi ā ahiahi ehuehu mai, lying stretched out in the calm until at evening full of animation.
  • Ā ka laʻi a ʻEhu lā, ehuehu ʻoe ē ka lani lā (song for Kalākaua), and the calm of ʻEhu, you, o chief, appeared with majesty.
  • Kū ana ʻo Mauna Loa, kuahiwi ʻalo ehuehu (song), stands Mauna Loa, hill resisting storms.

2. vs., Healthy, vigorous.

• Related:
  • Less used than ahuahu.

3. n., A kind of rock, used for adzes.

• References:
  • Malo 19.

kik/ʻaʻ Animated, violent. Dic. Kiʻiʻoniʻoni ehuehu. Action movie.

1. n., The state of being furious; violence; furiousness: Ka ehuehu o ka makani, the furiousness of the wind.

2. n., Total or partial absence of light; obscurity; gloom; darkness.

Healthy and vigorous growth. See ahuahu, a more common term.

Kind of hard rock used to make the adze. (MALO 19.)

Wind of great strength and fury.

violence.

The state of being furious, violent as of the wind (AP).