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1. Reduplication of waʻa #2; full of gulches, gullies, grooves; gullied, furrowed, grooved.

• References:
  • PCP wakawaka .

2. nvs., Muscular, one whose back bulges with muscles.

• References:
  • PPN wakawaka .

3. nvs., Stupid, ignorant; ignoramus, simpleton, fool.

• Examples:
  • Waʻawaʻaiki-naʻaupō, ignorant stupid one [name of a legendary simpleton].
• Related:
  • hoʻowaʻawaʻa Caus/sim.; To act the fool.
• References:
  • Cf. hāwāwā.

4. n., Upper end of a lobster's leg.

5. n., Hollow at meeting of bones below the Adam's apple.

6. vs., Desolate, uninhabited.

• Examples:
  • Waʻawaʻa kō kāua hale, ʻaʻohe kānaka (a dirge), our house is desolate without people.

Upper part of the thorax; lower part of the throat.

Plump, muscled, as the shoulders of a young man.

To act without foresight, as giving away oneʻs property in a moment of generosity; mischief from ignorance; stupid.

1. Reduplication of waʻa (PE). 2. Full of gulches, gullies, grooves (PE).