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1. Reduplication of puʻu #1; full of protuberances, lumps; lumpy, piled in heaps; heaped up, swollen up.

• Examples:
  • ʻA ʻā puʻupuʻu, water-worn gravel or stones.
  • Poi puʻupuʻu, lumpy poi, figuratively, an unsocial person.
  • Puʻupuʻu lei pali i ka ʻāʻī, an irregular or imperfect [literally, lumpy] lei is a cliff on the neck [a lei is beautiful when worn].
• Related:
  • hoʻopuʻupuʻu Caus/sim.; Reduplication of hoʻopuʻu; a mound, to mound up.
• References:
  • PCP pukupuku .

2. Reduplication of puʻu #2; knuckles, joints; clenched fist, blow with the fist; pimply, full of blotches; skin eruptions, scurvy (Oihk. 21.20).

• Related:
  • hoʻopuʻupuʻu Caus/sim.; To clench the fist, to shake the fist threateningly.

3. Reduplication of puʻu #9; knotty.

4. n., Eyes at a joint, as of sugar cane or kava.

5. n., Capital, as of a candlestick.

• References:
  • Puk. 25.31

kikino, Nodule, as on a leguminous plant.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning

• Related:
  • Hānai puʻupuʻu. To serve underhand, in volleyball.
  • Kuʻi puʻupuʻu. To spike with closed fist.

Full of blotches or pimples; to break out into blisters and boils.

Reduplication of puʻu (PE).