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1. vi., To cluck.

• Figuratively, to talk too much.
• Examples:
  • E nuʻu a koʻu ka puʻu (saying), pile on until the throat clucks [eat all one can].
• Related:
  • Waha koʻu, gabbling mouth.

2. nvt., Conception; male potency; to conceive.

• Examples:
  • Ua pau ke koʻu, potency is over.
  • Ua koʻu ka moa kāne, the rooster has mounted [a hen].
  • Ua moe lāua a i laila koʻu, they slept together and life came.

3. poss., My, mine (o-form; Gram. 8.4, 9.6).

• References:
  • PNP toku.

hamani To jab with fingertips, in volleyball. Niʻihau.

adj., pron, first person. My; mine; of me; an oblique case of au or wau, and formed like the foregoing. See Grammar§ 124, 1st, and§ 126, 3d. Ko'u is distinguished from kou by a slight break in the pronunciation between the preposition ko and the u and indicated in writing by an apostrophe. It is doubtless a contraction of ko ou.

v., To cluck, as a hen.

To cluck like a hen.