horoeka
Britishnoun
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Origin of horoeka
Māori
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Horoeka, ivy-tree. an ornamental, slender, and sparingly-branched tree.
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Horoeka, stepping out into the marae to fetch his victim to the sacrifice, was just in time to see that victim disappearing round the corner of his prison-house.
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"Horoeka, the arch-offender, has disappeared into remoter wilds, and the others lay the blame of it all on Horoeka."
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"Yes," responded Hugh, "and even then the beggars have the impudence to swear, in the teeth of their talk last night in their wharé-runanga, that Horoeka only meant to give the pakeha boy a good fright because he had done a mischief to the very tapu-tree in which lives the spirit of the tribe's great ancestor."
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"It's a bit of the fringe of the mat Horoeka was wearing this afternoon," he said quietly.
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