‖ kuri N.Z.
(ˈkʊriː)
[Maori kurī.]
A Maori dog, long extinct; also, a mongrel. Cf. goorie, goory.
| 1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand I. ix. 308 The karáráhé, or dog (Canis Australis), which, when young, is known as kuri, has been an inhabitant some two or three centuries. 1843 E. Dieffenbach Trav. N.Z. II. iv. 46 The New Zealand dog is different from the Australian dingo;..the native name is kuri. 1900 J. Scott Tales Colonial Turf 180 It was a sort of poodle..no one would think of asking who owned the kuri. 1930 J. Cowan in J. Reid Kiwi Laughs (1961) 97, I wish you'd give it to them hot and strong about the blasted ‘kuris’ worrying my sheep. 1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori (1950) i. iv. 64 The dog (kuri) figures a good deal in tradition. 1959 Tindale & Lindsay Rangatira 195 Kuri dog. The Maori dog was small... It was kept as a pet, it gave some aid in hunting, and it provided..fresh meat... It appears to be a domesticated strain of the feral dog of India..now extinct in New Zealand. |