‖ moki-moki N.Z.
(ˈmɒkɪmɒkɪ)
Also mok-e-mok, moki, moki-mok, mokky.
[Maori.]
= makomako1; moko-moko 2.
| 1928 Daily Express 6 June 3 What is the moki-moki? 1935 E. Hodgkinson in A. E. Currie Cent. Treas. Otago Verse (1949) 33 The forest rings with tuis' and mokis' chiming. 1940 N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) xiv. 218 English birdsong there was pierced by the colder and deeper notes of bell-birds and mok-e-moks. a 1948 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) 361 Bell-bird.—Mako-mako, or Moki-mok... The name is still sometimes used; but the bird is now generally called a ‘Mokky’. |